50+ Quotes on Reading: Discover the Magic Within Book Pages

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”

“[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”

“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.”

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”

“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”

“Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.””

“I even love the smell of books.”

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.”

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”

“Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost.”

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: ‘You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”

“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”

“And what is the use of a book,thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?””

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”

“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away–our stories. I guess that’s what I love about books–they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.”

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”

“I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.”

“Of all things, I liked books best.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”

“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages – a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”

“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”

“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”

“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”

“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.”

“As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.”

“All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.”

“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”

“In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.”

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”

“It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

“Literature is my Utopia”