The following are the 45 most inspirational quotes about reading
1. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” ― Neil Gaiman
2. “An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” ― Thomas Wharton
3. “When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.” — Clifton Fadiman
4. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” ― Orhan Pamuk
5. “The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.” ― Jonathan Franzen
6. “The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who can’t read.” — Unknown
7. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” ― Kate DiCamillo
8. “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
9. “There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion.” — Sven Birkerts
10. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” ― Anna Quindlen
11. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” — Edmund Burke
12. “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” — Harold Bloom
13. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Richard Steele
14. “Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” ― William Styron
15. “Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.” ― Oprah
16. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” ― Abraham Lincoln
17. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
18. “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.” — Vladimir Nabokov
19. “Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.” – Pam Allyn
20. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” ― Lloyd Alexander
21. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius
22. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” ― Garrison Keillor
23. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo
24. “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
25. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
26. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham
27. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley
28. “Reading brings us unknown friends” ― Honoré de Balzac
29. “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” ― George R.R. Martin
30. “One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.” — Ishmael Reed
31. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac
32. “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
33. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.” ― Carl Sagan
34. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” ― Mary Mcleod Bethune
35. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin
36. “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” ― Samuel Johnson
37. “Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it’ll be too dark to read.” — Unknown
38. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” ― Roald Dahl
39. “Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.” — Charles Dudley Warner
40. “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
41. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ― Rene Descartes
42. “The wise man reads both books and life itself.” — Lin Yutang
43. “We read to know we’re not alone.” ― William Nicholson
44. “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 Saying
45. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis