Famous Quotes About Reading

1. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who

never reads lives only one.”- George R.R. Martin
2. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not
love breathing.”- Harper Lee
3. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long
enough to suit me.”- C.S. Lewis
4. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on
the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”- Groucho Marx
5. “Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”- Mark
Twain
6. “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set
away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the
wall.”- Roald Dahl
7. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more
that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”- Dr. Seuss
8. “Books are a uniquely portable magic .”- Stephen King
9. “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to
write in.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one
on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”- Benjamin
Franklin
11. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s
loot on Treasure Island.”- Walt Disney
12. “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
13. My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could
spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my
curiosity.”- Malcolm X
14. “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
15. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would
not read yourself.”- George Bernard Shaw
16. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts
of his aren’t very new after all.”- Abraham Lincoln
17. “The man who does not read good books is no better
than the man who can’t.”- Mark Twain
18. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the
people who move the world.”- Napoléon Bonaparte
19. “I guess there are never enough books.”- John Steinbeck
20. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right
book.”- J.K. Rowling
21. “There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands
away.”- Emily Dickinson
22. “Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man,
Discourse a clear Man.”-Benjamin Franklin
23. “Read to live, not live to read.”- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
24. “A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for
what he reads as a task will do him little good.” - Samuel
Johnson
25. “ Always read something that will make you look good if
you die in the middle of it”. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
26. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…. The
man who never reads lives only one.” - George R. R.
Martin
27. The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned
in his immediate world. -Lin Yutang
28. I never know what I think about something until I read
what I’ve written on it- William Faulkner
29. What is reading but silent conversation. -Walter Savage
Landor
30. Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.-
Arthur Schopenhauer