137 Inspiring Quotes About Reading

In a world overflowing with digital distractions, the simple act of reading offers a timeless refuge. Whether it's the rustle of pages or the soothing glow of an e-reader, each word has the power to transport us to distant lands, ignite our imaginations, and deepen our understanding of the world and ourselves. In this collection, we celebrate the profound joy and inspiration that reading bestows upon us. Dive into these 137 carefully selected quotes about reading and let them remind you of the magic waiting to be uncovered within the pages of a good book. Prepare to be inspired, motivated, and perhaps even transformed by the wisdom and insights of writers, thinkers, and readers from across the ages.

1. “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” - David Mitchell

3. “I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.” - Sven Birkerts

4. “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

5. “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury

6. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” - Oscar Wilde

7. “A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.” - C.S. Lewis

8. “A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” - David Sedaris

9. “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” - Saul Bellow

10. “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” - C.S. Lewis

11. “What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.” - E. M. Forster

12. “Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.” - Susan Sontag

13. “A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.” - Laurence Peter

14. “In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.” - Elizabeth Hardwick

16. “We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...” - Manguel Alberto

17. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.” - Helen Exley

18. “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” - Aphra Behn

19. “A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.” - Jorge Luis Borges

20. “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” - Malcolm X

21. “If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

22. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” - Charles Baudelaire

23. “We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.” - Vladimir Nabokov

24. “Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.” - Alberto Manguel

25. “We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.” - Alberto Manguel

26. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” - Diane Duane

27. “You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history” - Iain Banks

28. “Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.” - Tom Bissell

29. “By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...” - Brandon Sanderson

30. “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?” - Christopher Paolini

31. “I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.” - Emma Thompson

32. “Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?” - Laura Miller

33. “Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters even–caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you” - Diane Setterfield

34. “Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.” - Ellen Kushner

35. “When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?” - Alysha Speer

36. “We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.” - Lloyd Alexander

37. “Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” - Henry Stevens

38. “The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.” - Adolf Hitler

39. “Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.” - Lisa McMann

40. “Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.” - Robin Waterfield

41. “Lire un bon livre, ça redonne envie de vivre, ça vous donne envie de partir, A la recherche du temps perdu.” - Pierre Perret

42. “If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by specialising, you produce a brain bulging out inordinately on one side, on the other cut flat down and mostly paralytic at that: and in short so long as I hold that the Creator has an idea of a man, so long shall I be sure that no uneven specialist realises it. The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.... but we may agree that, in reading, it is not quantity so much that tells, as quality and thoroughness of digestion.” - Sir Arthur Quiller Couch

43. “Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.” - Gabriel Zaid

44. “All I have learned, I learned from books.” - Abraham Lincoln

45. “Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

46. “I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.” - Marilynne Robinson

47. “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.” - Abraham Lincoln

48. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

49. “Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.” - Clifton Fadiman

50. “There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.” - Carolyn Parkhurst

51. “I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs I will come home to find the dogs have been ... given a swim in the above-ground pool, dressed in tutus, provided with hair weaves. What I will not find is that the dogs have been fed. 'I thought you wanted me to free the dogs,' says Poppet whose school district is not spending quite what D.C.'s is, thanks to voter rejection of the last school bond referendum.” - P.J. O'Rourke

52. “The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.” - Brent Weeks

53. “La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.” - René Descartes

54. “It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.” - Larry Niven

55. “When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to study not just the shape of the letters but other marks of production. The speed of the pen. The pressure of the hand on the page. Breaks and releases in the flow. You must relax. Think of nothing. Until you wake into a dream where you are at once a pen flying of vellum and the vellum itself with the touch of ink tickling your surface. Then you can read it. The intention of the writer, his thoughts, his hesitations, his longings and his meaning. You can read as clearly as if you were the very candlelight illuminating the page as the pen speeds over it.” - Diane Setterfield

56. “The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.” - Edith Wharton

57. “As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like.For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.” - W.H. Auden

58. “The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.” - James Lane Allen

59. “candid, adj."Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.I guess I was just giving you a warning."Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".” - David Levithan

60. “There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.” - Graham Swift

61. “the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.” - Jasper Fforde

62. “All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.” - Eugene Field

63. “There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.” - Robert Ingersoll

64. “و عندما تحس و أنت تقرأ بمثل حركة الرادار، فقف..إن عقلك قد وجد نفسه هنا.. و إنك الآن أمام كلمة أو عبارة تحمل لك فيضاً من الأسرار و الأفكار، إذا أنت تدبرتها و نحيّت الكتاب جانباً لتتأمل هذه العبارة التي اهتز لها وجدانك ، واختلج عقلك..لا تهمل هذه الومضات التي تواتيك و أنت تقرأ .. فإنها مفاتيح كنوز جليلة..عندما تبلغ عبارة تمس روحك مس الكهرباء ، و تحس فيها شيئاً يستوقفك و يبهرك، فنح الكتاب قليلاً ، و أصغ لما توحيه إليك، و فكر فيها. ستفتح بصيرتك إلى عالم من الأفكار جديد..و هذه مزية القراءة.فنحن لا نقرأ لنزيد معلوماتنا، و ننمي معارفنا فحسب، بل نقرأ لأن القراءة تلهمنا، و تطل بنا إلى أفكار عذراء تنتظرنا لنكشفها و نضيفها إلى تراث الفكر الإنساني.” - خالد محمد خالد

65. “The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.” - Jim Trelease

66. “Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.” - Anna Quindlen

67. “I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it's something like a detective novel, when you'd suspect that knowing who had really killed the countess would materially detract from the experience. (It doesn't, and besides, I often can't remember who the murderer was in the first place.)” - Anna Quindlen

68. “I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.” - Charles Bukowski

69. “I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

70. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Elizabeth Hardwick

71. “I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.” - Frank Conroy

72. “So go ahead. Do it—open the book. See? You see me, right? And I see you. See? I am reading your face, your eyes, your lips. I know the sufferdust on your brow. I can see you reading and I can tell, too, when you are here, when you’re absent, what you’ve read and how it affects you. There is no more hiding. I see your chords—your fractures, your cold gifts, where and when you’ve hurt people and why. It’s all right there—your stories are written right there on your face!” - Christopher Boucher

73. “To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.” - Sarah Wendell

74. “Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

75. “Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

76. “It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.” - William Faulkner

77. “I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty...” - Edward Gorey

78. “Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]” - Anna Quindlen

79. “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]” - Carl Sagan

80. “Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.” - Peter Hoeg

81. “Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.” - Jeanette Winterson

82. “Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.' It was certainly an interesting theory, ... [but] surely one didn't need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library.” - Michelle Cooper

83. “Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.” - Italo Calvino

84. “Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.” - Toba Beta

85. “[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.” - Simon Van Booy

86. “Vous craignez les livres comme certaines bourgades ont craint les violons. Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde.” - Voltaire

87. “In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?” - Gary Shteyngart

88. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J.K. Rowling

89. “The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.” - Thomas Bernhard

90. “I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs, each with stories or pictures more exciting and beautiful than the next, and two overstuffed chairs big enough for me to sleep in.” - Clay Carmichael

91. “she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.” - Alan Hollinghurst

92. “‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.” - Mario Vargas Llosa

93. “For centuries, no one was concerned that books weren’t girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we persisted for long enough that literature has slowly come to accommodate us. Modern boys, by contrast, are not trying to read in a culture of opposition. Nobody is telling them reading doesn’t matter, that boys don’t need to read and that actually, no prospective wife looks for literacy in a husband. Quite the opposite! Male literary culture thrives, both teachers and parents are throwing books at their sons, and the fact that the books aren’t sticking isn’t, as the nature of the complaint makes clear, because boys don’t like reading – no. The accusation is that boys don’t like reading about girls, which is a totally different matter.Because constantly, consistently, our supposedly equal society penalises boys who express an interest in anything feminine. The only time boys are discouraged from books all together is in contexts where, for whatever reason, they’ve been given the message that reading itself is girly – which is a wider extrapolation of the same problem.” - Foz Meadows

94. “You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

95. “You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

96. “Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

97. “This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.” - Anne Frank

98. “If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.” - Mortimer J. Adler

99. “Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.” - Kristy Pellegrin

100. “Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their help he was always getting to know new people, many of whom even became his friends.” - Jan-Philipp Sendker

101. “I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.” - J.K. Rowling

102. “This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there. They could bring their somethings to a text, as co-creators, embedding a needed reality in the story that, if it was flexible enough, would allow new threads to take their place beside the author’s.” - L.L. Barkat

103. “We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.” - Vladimir Nabokov

104. “An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.” - Hervé Le Tellier

105. “Para que un tedio como ése llegue a Icamole se requiere de la complicidad de autor, correctores, editores, impresores, libreros y hasta lectores; eso sin contar a la pareja del escritor, que le dice sí, mi vida, tú sí escribes bien bonito. Delincuencia organizada, dice él” - David Toscana

106. “This book has awoken something in me. I don't know what it is, but it feels good.” - C.M. Stunich

107. “Mais la connaissance du passé rendu vivant et présent, où la trouve-t-on ? Eh bien, avant tout, dans la littérature ! Et là est à mes yeux la merveille. On la trouve dans les textes français et étrangers, modernes et anciens. Aussi cela me paraît-il une erreur très grave que de représenter l’enseignement de la littérature comme une espèce d’élégance superflue et gratuite. En fait, c’est grâce à la littérature que se forme presque toute notre idée de la vie ; le détour par les textes conduit directement à la formation de l’homme. Ils nous apportent les analyses et les idées, mais aussi les images, les personnages, les mythes, et les rêves qui se sont succédé dans l’esprit des hommes ; ils nous ont un jour émus parce qu’ils étaient exprimés ou décrits avec force ; et c’est de cette expérience que se nourrit la nôtre.” - Jacqueline de Romilly

108. “I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people, with that metaphysical absurdity known as “flesh and blood.” In fact “flesh and blood” describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive, the sirloin steaks and cutlets of Fate.” - Fernando Pessoa

109. “Ler é acumular conhecimento. Mas não apenas isso. Ler nos oferece todo dia o que a religião nos promete para um futuro póstumo e improvável: a possibilidade de vivermos mais do que nosso tempo de vida nos permite fazê-lo.” - Camilo Gomes Jr

110. “Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” - Kellie Elmore

111. “Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.” - Camilo Gomes Jr

112. “There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere” - Lin Yutang

113. “An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

114. “A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

115. “In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there” - Jane Austen

116. “I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.” - Alyxandra Harvey

117. “I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.” - Dawn French

118. “Reading is performance. The reader-- the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk-- performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

119. “I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.” - Mark Jason Dominus

120. “Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.” - Siri Hustvedt

121. “If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.” - Bill Hybels

122. “By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure stories. This was before I’d read Isak Dinesen and Mikhail Bulgakov, before Ernest Hemingway and T. Coraghessan Boyle, before I’d read something and really felt it, when writing was still just a compulsion, and my teen-age brain was only bordering on sentience. I filled pages of white space with swashbuckling, rapier-wielding, sidekick-sacrificing, dragon-baiting romance.(from 'High-School Confidential' in the The New Yorker.)” - Téa Obreht

123. “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” - Louisa May Alcott

124. “In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

125. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” - Cassandra Clare

126. “I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the cinema with the sole aim of having their mind expanded – entertainment is a fine raison d'etre for films so why not books?” - Catherine Jones

127. “Note: When reading dry political theory, such as the texts you will find on the following pages, it may be useful to apply the Exclamation Point Test from time to time, to determine if the material you are reading is actually relevant to your life. To apply this test, simply go through the text replacing all the punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences with exclamation points. If the results sound absurd when read aloud, then you know you're wasting your time.” - CrimethInc.

128. “Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.” - Aneta Cruz

129. “Life is beautiful if you take the best option.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

130. “I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.” - Neil Gaiman

131. “There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

132. “Have the best course for all your actions.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

133. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

134. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

135. “He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.” - James Salter

136. “…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone’s benefitting.” - Eliot Schrefer

137. “I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.” - Anne Tyler