A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
40+ Best Book & Reading Quotes & Wishes
Updated: October 2026
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We read to know we're not alone.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
In the end, we'll all become stories.
I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'This could change your life.'
Reading is a conversation. All books talk.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Reading brings us unknown friends.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.