Quotes on Reading

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ― Margaret Fuller
“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.” ― Mortimer Adler
“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
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” – Dr Seuss.
“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 Elliot
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” - Voltaire
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ― Fran Lebowitz
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” ― Jules Verne
“A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” —Malorie Blackman
“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
“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.” — George Saunders
“Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” — William Styron
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” — Mary Schmich
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” — Anna Quindlen