20 Favorite Reading Quotes – Imagination Soup: Children’s Books & Reviews

If you’re a bookworm like me, you probably collect inspirational reading quotes. For book lovers like us, a good reading quote makes us happy and cozy, just like the books we love.

What are your favorite reading quotes? Here are some of mine!

These book and reading quotes from writers and authors, famous people and historical figures are sure to inspire readers like you and me.

Enjoy!

20 Favorite Reading Quotes

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” – Ursula K. LeGuin

“If we value all readers, we must value all reading.” – Donalyn Miller

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“We read to know we are not alone.” – C.S. Lewis

“Reading can take you places you have never been before.” – Dr. Seuss

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen

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

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou

“We read to give our soul a chance to luxuriate.” – Henry Miller

“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”

― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”

– Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that’s the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?”
– Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Books make great gifts . . . they have the whole world inside of them.”
– Neil Gaiman

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
-Sir Francis Bacon

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
– Elizabeth Hardwick

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
– Frederick Douglass

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

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
– Confucius

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
– Margaret Fuller

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“The reading of all good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes

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