“Reading” typically refers to the process of interpreting written or printed material by understanding and comprehending the symbols, characters, or words presented. It involves visually perceiving the text and mentally processing the information it conveys. Reading can occur in various forms, such as books, articles, digital content, or any written material. It’s a fundamental skill that opens doors to knowledge, imagination, and understanding across different subjects and areas of interest.
Reading Quotes
1. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
— Richard Steele
2. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
— C.S. Lewis
3. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
— Mason Cooley
4. “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
5. “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
— George R.R. Martin
6. “We read to know we’re not alone.”
— William Nicholson
7. To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
— Victor Hugo
8. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
— Rene Descartes
9. “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
— Annie Dillard
10. “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
— Steven Spielberg
11. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
— Garrison Keillor
12. “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
13. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
— George R.R. Martin
14. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
— Ray Bradbury
15. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
— Neil Gaiman
16. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
— Orhan Pamuk
17. “Reading brings us, unknown friends”
— Honoré de Balzac
18. “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
19. “Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
— William Styron
20. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.”
— Anna Quindlen
21. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
— Dr. Seuss
22. “Reading is departure and arrival.”
— Terri Guillemets
23. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.”
— Abraham Lincoln
24. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
— Kate DiCamillo
25. “Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.”
— Pam Allyn
26. “An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”
— Thomas Wharton
27. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
— Mason Cooley
28. “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
— Alberto Manguel
29. “It’s one of the greatest gifts that reading can give a person: easy access to peace inside, even when the world outside is in shambles.”
— J. W.
30. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
— J.K. Rowling
31. “Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
— John Green
32. “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”
— Paul Auster
33. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
— Diane Duane
34. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
— Frederick Douglas
35. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
— Emilie Buchwald
36. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
— Margaret Fuller
37. “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
— Gary Paulsen
38. “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.”
— Christian Bauman
39. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
— Confucius
40. “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
41. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
— Jhumpa Lahiri
42. “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”
— Lemony Snicket
43. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
44. “A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”
— Louis L’Amour
45. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.”
— Carl Sagan
46. “No two persons ever read the same book.”
— Edmund Wilson
47. “I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.”
— Woodrow Wilson
48. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
49. “Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
— David Baldacci
50. “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
— Mark Haddon
51. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
— Lemony Snicket
52. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
— John Green
53. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
— Oscar Wilde
54. “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
— John Green
55. “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
— William Styron
56. “We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
— Judith Butler
57. “Generally speaking, books don’t cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
— Pseudonymous Bosch
58. “What is inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all.”
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
59. “There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”
— Matt Haig
60. “Read about things that wouldn’t keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.”
— Lemony Snicket
61. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
— Mark Twain
62. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
— Mortimer Adler
63. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Haruki Murakami
64. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
— Albert Einstein
65. “Reading without thinking will confuse you. Thinking without reading will place you in danger.”
— Confucius
66. “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
— J.D. Salinger
67. “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 William Eliot
68. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
— Groucho Marx
69. “The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”
— David Bailey
70. “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
— William Godwin
71. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
— Groucho Marx
72. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
— Jane Austen
73. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
— Maya Angelou
74. “I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book — they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.”
— Emilia Fox
75. “When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they’re feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.”
— Amy Tan
76. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island…”
— Walt Disney
77. “Reading… a vacation for the mind.”
— Dave Barry
78. “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
79. “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
— Franz Kafka
80. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
81. “Reading is a gift. It’s something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape.”
— Richard Carlson
82. “The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.”
— Josh Lanyon
83. “When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”
— Chloe Thurlow
84. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
— Harry Truman
85. “The world belongs to those who read.”
— Rick Holland
86. “I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of the last page.”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
87. “I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
— Elbert Hubbard
88. “I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough… the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
— John Adams
89. “This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.”
— Anne Frank
90. “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
— Emma Thompson
91. “We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”
— Quintilian
92. “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
— Thornton Wilder
93. “What is reading but silent conversation?”
— Walter Savage Landor
94. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
— Mary McLeod Bethune
95. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
— Bill Gates
96. “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.”
— Francis Bacon
97. “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
98. “All readers are good readers when they have the right book.”
— Jeanne Herry
99. “Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.”
— Carolina Herrera
100. “A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”
— Erica Jong
