Quotes from famous authors and bookworms can encourage and motivate us. They can give us a new perspective and inspire us to pick up a book and start reading. Here are our top 50 inspiring and motivating quotes about reading and books.
1. "Bird have wings. Humans have books." - Unknown
2. "The world belongs to those who read." - Rick Holland
3. "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."- Chinese Proverb
4. "In a good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." - Mark Twain
5. "For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you, books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die." - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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7. "Books. One of the few things you can buy that will make you richer." - Unknown
8."Books are not my whole life but they make my life whole." - Unknown
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10. "You simply never know what a child is going to find in a book." - Lucy Mangan
11. "You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book."- Dr. Seuss
12. "Keep reading. It's one of the most marvellous adventures that anyone can have." Lloyd Alexander
13. "What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? - Anthony Trollope
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15. "There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
16. "Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."- Jim Bishop
17. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go."- Dr. Seuss
18. "There is only one thing that could replace a book: the next book." - Unknown
19. "It's always better to have too much to read than not enough." - Ann Patchett
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21."Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them."- Neil Gaiman
22. "In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."- Ben Aaronovitch
23. "It's called reading. It's how people install new software into their brains." - Unknown
24. "Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession... but about securing a portal."- Laura Miller, Broken Homes
25. "Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
26. "The greatest gift is a passion for reading."- Elizabeth Hardwick
27. "Sometimes you just need to lay on the couch and read for a couple of years."- Unknown
28. "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." - B.F. Skinner
29. "Sleep is good. Books are better."- George R.R. Martin
30. "A rainy day is a special gift to readers." - Amy Miles
31. "The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity..." - A. Edward Newton
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33. "Oh magic hour, when a child first knows she can rad printed words!" - Betty Smith, A tree grows in Brooklyn
34." I stepped into the bookstore and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling." - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
35. "Close your eyes. Take a breath. Inhale calmness. Exhale stress. Make a cuppa. Sink into a chair. Pick up a book. Disappear." - Unknown
36. "I don't think there is sucha thing as a bad book for children. It's tosh. It's snobbery and it's foolishness. We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung, into literacy." - Neil Gaiman
37. "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." - Samuel Johnson
38. "We read to know we're not alone." - William Nicholson
39. "A Child. A book. A read. A chat. This is the way the mind grows. Not with a test but a tale." - Michael Rosen
40. "Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read." - Neil Gaiman
41. "A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." - Madeleine L'Engle
42. "Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes a place for that." - John Green
43. "We can't solve all problems with books and reading, but we can try to make sure all kids have access to book they can relate to and choose to read- to escape into a good story and help kids make sense of the world around them and their own feelings." - Judy Newman
43. "There is no app to replace your lap! Read to your child."- Unknown
44. "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." - Maya Angelou
45. "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
46."Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." - Jane Smiley
47. "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."- C.S.Lewis
48. "A child who reads will be an adult who thinks." - Unknown
49. "When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it." - Julian Barnes
50. "All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen." - Roald Dahl, Matilda
