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51 Quotes About Reading That Will Soothe Your Book-Loving Soul

"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." - Anne Lamott
Marisa Donnelly
September 15, 2016
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
— Vera Nazarian, Roadmap to Success: Inspiring Journeys of Ten Iconic Coptic Leaders
Tagged: Books, Reading, Happiness
“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”
— Louis L’Amour, The Role of Reading in Nine Famous Lives
Tagged: Learning, Reading, Books, Teaching
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
— Charles William Eliot, Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
Tagged: Books, Reading, Teachers
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”
— Joseph Addison, The Tatler, Volume 3
Tagged: Books, Reading, Health, Exercise, Best Reading Quotes
“A girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment. ”
— Charles Warnke, You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
Tagged: Girl Who Reads, Readers, Reading, Dating, Love, The Girl Who Reads
“Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
— Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Tagged: good life, Reading, Books, Friendship, Friends, Relaxation, relax, Peace, calm, Quiet, Lifestyle, ideal life, the dream, American Dream
“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Tagged: Language, treachery, vehicle, Communication, Facts, Truth, Imagination, description, Writing, Reading, Magic, consumption, Knowledge, Learning
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Tagged: Luck, Reading, Books, Reality
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”
— Junot Dìaz, Junot Diaz, in conversation at Sydney Writers' Festival
Tagged: Writers, Writing, Novels, Words, Books, Language, Community, Reading
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”
— Anthony Trollope, The Warden
Tagged: Coffee, Luxury, Bookworm, Relaxation
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Reading, Book Worm, Reader, Book Lover, My Favorites
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Tagged: Books, Reading, Escape
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
— Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Books, Friendships, Love, Literature, Connection
“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.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Reading, Reader, Books, humanity
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
— Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society
Tagged: Dead Poets Society, Reading, Writing, Poetry, Robin Williams Quotes
“'I'm not a stranger,' I said, and pointed to his book. 'I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.'”
— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
Tagged: Stranger, Books, Reading
“I have always come to life after coming to books.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
Tagged: Life, Books, Coming To Life, Reading, Pleasure Of Reading, Bookworm, Book Lovers
“There are pleasures in reading so startling, so intense, they shade into pain. The realization that one’s life has been irrevocably altered by . . . can it be mere words? Print on a page? The most life-rending discoveries involve what has in fact never been thought, never given form, until another’s words embody them.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
Tagged: Life, Books, Coming To Life, Reading, Pleasure Of Reading, Bookworm, Book Lovers
“Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin; another’s voice; another’s soul.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
Tagged: Life, Books, Coming To Life, Reading, Pleasure Of Reading, Bookworm, Book Lovers
“That, by way of a book, we have the ability to transcend what is immediate, what is merely personal, and to enter a consciousness not known to us, in some cases distinctly alien.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
Tagged: Life, Books, Coming To Life, Reading, Pleasure Of Reading, Bookworm, Book Lovers
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
Tagged: Life, Books, Coming To Life, Reading, Pleasure Of Reading, Bookworm, Book Lovers, Literature, Religion