Quotes About Reading
Photo: LOC
Here are some wonderful quotes about the experience of reading that we have collected.
"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." - Jhumpa Lahiri
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss.
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin. He also added to his World Book Day tweet, "or dies a thousand deaths.."
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." - Neil Gaiman.
Reading is a great way to escape from life as this poster from the 1930s suggests. It was created by the WPA Federal Art Project. You can see a larger version here.
Image: LOC
"I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." - J.K. Rowling
"There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away." - Emily Dickinson
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King
"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." - Louis L'Amour
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends." - Helen Keller
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." - Terry Pratchett
"I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
"We read to know we're not alone." - William Nicholson
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." - J.K. Rowling
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." - Lemony Snicket
"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that." - John Green
"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began." - Rita Mae Brown
*Note: The image above is thee Main Reading Room at The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. You can see a larger version of the image here.