Need some reading inspiration? Here are 50 quotes about reading that will inspire your inner book worm. 🐛
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” – David Mitchell
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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.” – Steven Spielberg
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“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
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“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.” – Walter Mosley
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“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Literature is news that stays news.” – Ezra Pound
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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” – Helen Exley
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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen
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“I am a part of everything that I have read.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” – Lisa Kleypas
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“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” – Lisa See
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“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.” – Helen Exley
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“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke
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“Reading… a vacation for the mind….” – Dave Barry
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“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.” – Alberto Manguel
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“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.” – Austin Kleon
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“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” – Gabrielle Dubois
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“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.” – Matt Haig
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“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.” – Brandon Mull
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“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” – Elbert Hubbard
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“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
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“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” – P.J. O’Rourke
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“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” – Harold Kushner
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
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“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” – Anonymous
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“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” – John Green
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“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – Neil Gaiman
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“We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.” – Anonymous
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“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” – Francois Mauriac
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
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“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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“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
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“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” – Gary Paulsen
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“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” – Jean Rhys
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“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman
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“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” – Mary Wortley Montagu
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“Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” – Khaled Hosseini
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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” – Sir Francis Bacon
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“Reading is departure and arrival.” – Terri Guillemets
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“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” – Harry Truman
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“Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” – A.S. Byatt
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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
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“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” – David Mitchell
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