Reading is an essential skill that opens doors to knowledge, imagination and a better understanding of the world around us. However, in today’s fast-paced digital age, where screens are always vying for our attention, it can be challenging to cultivate a consistent reading habit. Help your students recognize the many benefits of reading, such as improved vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and mental well-being. We hope this list of xx quotes inspires and encourages your students to read consistently!
1. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
2. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
3. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
4. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
5. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
6. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
7. “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
8. “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman
9. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – Neil Gaiman
10. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
11. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
12. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling
13. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr. Seuss
14. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
15. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
16. “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” – Desiderius Erasmus
17. “The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
18. “Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” – Carl Sagan
19. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” – Oscar Wilde
20. “No two persons ever read the same book.” – Edmund Wilson
21. “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” – Alan Bennett
22. “Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” – John Green
23. “To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.” – Chinese Proverb
24. “So many books, so little time.” – Frank Zappa
25. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
26. “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
27. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
28. “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” – William Styron
29. “The world belongs to those who read.” – Rick Holland
30. “One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” – Cassandra Clare
31. “Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
32. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” – Lloyd Alexander
33. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” – Victor Hugo
34. “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” – Henry David Thoreau
35. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling
36. “Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.” – Carl Sagan
37. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” – Diane Duane
38. “A book worth reading is worth buying.” – John Ruskin
39. “The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.” – Theodore Parker
40. “A good book is an event in my life.” – Stendhal
41. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
42. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke
43. “The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” – David Bailey
44. “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
45. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.” – Henry Miller
46. “A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.” – Katrina Mayer
47. “We read to know we are not alone.” – C.S. Lewis
48. “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
49. “A good book has no ending.” – R.D. Cumming
50. “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” – G.K. Chesterton
51. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” – Honoré de Balzac
52. “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” – Mark Haddon
53. “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
54. “A book is a dream you hold in your hands.” – Neil Gaiman
55. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
56. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” – Lisa Kleypas
57. “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
58. “I cannot live without books.” – Thomas Jefferson
59. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer J. Adler
60. “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” – E.P. Whipple
61. “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” – Henry Ward Beecher
62. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.” – Matthew Kelly
63. “To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan
64. “In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” – Thomas Carlyle
65. “Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.” – William Hazlitt
66. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – René Descartes
67. “The book you don’t read won’t help.” – Jim Rohn
68. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain
69. “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” – May Ellen Chase
70. “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” – James Russell Lowell
71. “Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.” – David L. Ulin
72. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” – Confucius
73. “A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instant reaction.” – Christopher Morley
74. “Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.” – Arthur Helps
75. “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
76. “Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” – Jesse Lee Bennett
77. “Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.” – E.B. White
78. “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” – Edward P. Morgan
79. “Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
80. “Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.” – Anonymous
81. “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” – James Bryce
82. “Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.” – Charles Scribner Jr.
83. “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
84. “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
85. “The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith
86. “Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.” – Pam Allyn
87. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
88. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.” – Carl Sagan
89. “Books are the quietest of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot
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