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Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have learned the profound effect that reading the right book can have at the right moment. If you’re short on time, reading some quotes about books is the next best thing.

Books have the power to transport us to new worlds and different times , but they can also take us back to the important moments in our own lives.

From building your vocabulary to reducing stress, preventing age-related cognitive decline and increasing your ability to empathize, reading books is an easy way to look after your mind and body.

Whether you’re an avid reader or wish you read more, we hope you enjoy these quotes about books and reading!

′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Novel

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy <a href="https://www.keepinspiring.me/food-quotes/">food </a>and clothes.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

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.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

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 <a href="https://www.keepinspiring.me/quotes-on-friendship/">friendship </a>mean; they show us how to live and die.

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.

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I guess there are never enough books.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

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.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness?

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Reading brings us unknown friends.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.

Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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