Here’s some of my favorite quotes about reading.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
Lena Dunham
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
Saul Bellow
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
Walt Disney
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
Malcom X
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.”
Maureen Corrigan
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
Jane Smiley
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglas
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
Mary Wortley Montagu
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
Anne Herbert
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing 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
“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.”
Audrey Hepburn
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
Holbrook Jackson
“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
Sherman Alexie
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket
What are your favorite quotes? Let me know in the comments below.