Quotes about Reading

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a

love of reading.”  ~ B.F. Skinner

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” 

~ B.B. King

“We read to know we are not alone.” - C.S. Lewis

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him

just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him

a whole new life.” - Christopher Morley

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you

must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” 

- Confucius

“Reading without reflecting is like eating

without digesting.” - Edmund Burke

“Children are made readers on the laps of their

parents.” - Emilie Buchwald

“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab

to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is

READ.” - Fortune

“I find television very educating. Every time

somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and

read a book.” - Groucho Marx

“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”

~ Anonymous 

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are

readers.” - Harry S. Truman

“Never judge a book by its movie.” - J.W. Eagan

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of

books is the best of all.” - Jacqueline Kennedy

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we

have that people are still thinking.” 

- Jerry Seinfield

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” 

- Joseph Brodsky

“A book is the most effective weapon against

intolerance and ignorance.” 

- Lyndon Baines Johnson

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

- Margaret Fuller

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man

who can't read.” - Mark Twain

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay

where we are.” - Mason Cooley

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good

for him.” - Maya Angelou

“A man is known by the books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the

body.” - Richard Steele

“Choose an author as you choose a friend.” - Sir Christopher Wren

“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and

those who read to forget.” - William Phelps

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

- W. Fusselman

“So many books, so little time.” 

- Frank Zappa

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to

read.” - Groucho Marx

“A room without books is like a body without a

soul.” - Cicero

“A house without books is like a room without

windows.” - Horace Mann

“Books may well be the only true magic.” 

- Alice Hoffman

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.

They are the destination, and the journey. They are

home.” - Anna Quindlen

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love

breathing.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” 

- Ernest Hemingway

“Books, the children of the brain.” 

- Jonathan Swift

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

- W. Fusselman

“The world was hers for the reading.” 

- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“There's more to life than books, you know, but not

much more.”-Steven Morrissey