So many books, so little time. ― Frank Zappa.
Why we should read books? Reading improves your conversational skills. Because reading increases your vocabulary and your knowledge of how to correctly use new words, reading helps you clearly articulate what you want to say. The knowledge you gain from reading also gives you lots to talk about with others.
Why is it important to read books? Reading is important because it develops our thoughts, gives us endless knowledge and lessons while keeping our minds active. Books can hold and keep all kinds of information, stories, thoughts and feelings unlike anything else in this world.
Why you should read books everyday? A person who reads everyday gets better at it over time. Not surprisingly, daily readers also gain more enjoyment from it than those that read less often. It can even improve memory and critical thinking skills. And activities like reading have been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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1. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people, people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. ― E.B. White
2. Books are a uniquely portable magic. ― Stephen King
3. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. ― Cherry Nguyen
They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ― Anna Quindlen
4. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ― Charles W. Eliot
5. Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. Books are no more threatened by kindle than stairs by elevators. ― Stephen Fry
7. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ― Henry Ward Beecher
8. Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us.
Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather,
and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ― Virginia Woolf
9. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ― Charles W. Eliot
10. Books were my pass to personal freedom. ― Oprah Winfrey
11. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. ― David Mitchell
12. Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree? ― Christopher Paolini
13. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.― Charles Baudelaire
14. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ― Salman Rushdie
15. A book is a dream you hold in your hands. ― Neil Gaiman
16. A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. ― C.S. Lewis
17. A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. ― Abraham Lincoln
18. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ― Italo Calvino
19. A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.
You live several lives while reading. ― William Styron
20. A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. ― Terry Pratchett
21. A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it,
taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ― Lemony Snicket
22. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. ― David Mitchell
23. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one. ― George R.R. Martin
24. A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. ― Walter Mosley
25. A word after a word after a word is power. ― Margaret Atwood
26. Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ― P.J. O’Rourke
27. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age,
as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ― Robertson Davies
28. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. ― Rainer Maria Rilke
29. ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. ― Mark Twain
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30. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ― Gustave Flaubert
31. I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx
32. I love books. I adore everything about them.
I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips.
They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas.
I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints.
Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud. ― Nnedi Okorafor
33. I love the smell of book ink in the morning. ― Umberto Eco
34. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges
35. I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a book. ― J.K. Rowling
36. I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges
37. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted.
Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. ― Roald Dahl
38. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. ― Jane Austen
39. I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. ― Orhan Pamuk
40. I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book.
You can’t really put a book on the Internet. ― Ray Bradbury
41. I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,
and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. ― Virginia Woolf
42. I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ― H.P. Lovecraft
43. I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. ― Gary Paulsen
44. I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. ― Margaret Atwood
45. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. ― Robert Louis Stevenson
46. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us.
If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?
So that it will make us happy, as you write?
Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to.
But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply,
like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,
like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
That is my belief. ― Franz Kafka
47. I guess there are never enough books. ― John Steinbeck
48. I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ― Mortimer J. Adler
50. If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. ― Francois Mauriac
51. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ― Haruki Murakami
52. If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. ― Stephen King
53. If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. ― J.K. Rowling
54. If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters.
The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies.
From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories. ― Michael Ende
55. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ― Oscar Wilde
56. If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. ―Toni Morrison
57. It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. ― C.S. Lewis
58. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ― Oscar Wilde
59. It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. ― Donna Tartt
60. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
61. It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. ― John Waters
62. Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it.
Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there,
too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar. ― Cornelia Funke
63. In the end, we’ll all become stories. ― Margaret Atwood
64. Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.― Jorge Luis Borges
65. Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ― Voltaire
66. Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. ― Lena Dunham
67. Leaders are always readers. ― Kevin Trudeau
68. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ― Fernando Pessoa
69. Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. ― Anne Herbert
70. Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. ― Dr. Seuss
71. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman
72. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
73. For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth.
What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you,
comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave.
They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. ― Anne Lamott
74. Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness.
That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop.
What better life than to trade in happiness? ― Saran MacLean
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75. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ― Mark Twain
76. So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message:
You are not alone. ― Roald Dahl
77. Some of these things are true and some of them lies.
But they are all good stories. ― Hilary Mantel
78. Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. ― Sir Francis Bacon
79. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,
and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. ― John Green
80. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ― Annie Dillard
81. Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read.
Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life.
Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself.
They have allowed me to remember.
They have allowed me to forget.
They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds. ― Roxane Gay
82. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. ― John Green
83. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ― Napoleon Bonaparte
84. Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. ― George R.R. Martin
85. She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. ― Louisa May Alcott
86. Room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
87. Reading is departure and arrival. ― Terri Guillemets
88. Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. ― Khaled Hosseini
89. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. ― Jim Rohn
90. Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. ― Mary Schmich
91. Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. ― Anne Brontë
92. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ― Joseph Addison
93. Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. – Malorie Blackman
94. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up,
and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. ― Nora Ephron
95. Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. ― Joyce Carol Oates
96. Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. ― Ben Okri
97. Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else,
disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe.
Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them. ― George Saunders
98. Reading means borrowing. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
99. Reading even browsing an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. ― James Gleick
100. Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. ―Kate DiCamillo
101. Reading, the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ― William Styron
102. Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape, I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. ― Christian Bauman
103. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it,
for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. ― Paul Auster
104. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ― John Locke
105. Reading makes immigrants of us all.
It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ― Jean Rhys
106. Reading brings us unknown friends. ― Honore de Belzac
107. Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ― Diane Duane
108. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ― Henry David Thoreau
109. Read, read, read.
Read everything, trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. ― William Faulkner
110. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. ― R.L. Stine
111. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. ― Bill Patterson
113. You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ― Paul Sweeney
114. You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. ― Cherry Nguyen
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. ― James Baldwin
115. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ― Ray Bradbury
116. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare
117. Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. ― Steven Spielberg
118. Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ― Louis L’Amour
119. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.
To read is to voyage through time. ― Carl Sagan
120. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ― Carl Sagan
121. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. ― Groucho Marx
122. Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime.
A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. ― David Quammen
123. People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ― Logan Pearsall Smith
124. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
125. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. ― Kurt Vonnegut
126. The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. ― George Orwell
127. The best moments in reading are when you come across something, a thought, a feeling,
a way of looking at things, which you had thought special and particular to you.
Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.
And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. ― Alan Bennett
128. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ― Ursula K. LeGuin
129. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ― Rene Descartes
130. The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. ― Isabel Allende
131. The world was hers for the reading. ―Betty Smith
132. The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t. ― Mark Twain
133. The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. ― Joseph Joubert
134. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ― W. Somerset Maugham
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135. To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ― Victor Hugo
136. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ― Margaret Fuller
137. Take a good book to bed with you, books do not snore. ― Thea Dorn
138. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. ― Walt Disney
139. There is no Frigate like a book to take us land away. ― Emily Dickinson
140. That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. ― Jhumpa Lahiri
141. Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz
142. Think of this, that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.A.S. Byatt
143. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ― Robert Frost
144. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally and often far more worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. ― C.S. Lewis
145. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ― Mary Wortley Montagu
146. No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
147. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. ― President Harry Truman
148. Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. ― Holbrook Jackson
149. Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket
150. Man reading should be man intensely alive.
The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. ― Ezra Pound
151. Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ― Jane Smiley
152. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ― Edith Sitwell
153. My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ― Malcolm X
154. Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ― Henry Ward Beecher
155. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ― Austin Phelps
156. What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ―Thomas Babington Macaulay
157. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it,
you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
That doesn’t happen much, though. ― J.D. Salinger
158. We live for books. ― Umberto Eco
159. We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze,
it is better to let them wear out by being read. ― Jules Verne
160. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind. ― Anna Quindlen
161. When we read a story, we inhabit it.
The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story.
And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own. ― John Berger
162. When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. ― Erasmus
163. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ― Harper Lee
164. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. ― Annie Proulx