Here are some book quotes that will put things in perspective and will make you appreciate reading.
1. The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know. - Alek Wek
2. I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved. - Kate DiCamillo
3. Reading makes immigrants of us all. it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. - Jean Rhys
4. Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Mary Schmicha
5. A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. - William Styron
6. Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. - Mark Haddon
7. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison
8. I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. - Emilia Fox
9. The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. - Pablo Neruda
10. People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith
11. There's so much more to a book than just the reading. - Maurice Sendak
12. Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress. - Sarah Addison Allen
13. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke
14. If you enjoy reading something, read it. - S. E. Hinton
15. I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. - John Green
16. When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. - Daniel Craig
17. There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface. - Maryanne Wolf
18. It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. - Mike Tyson
19. Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while. - Malorie Blackman
20. When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is. - Amy Tan
21. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. - Ursula K. Le Guin
22. We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. - Quintilian
23. The greatest gift is a 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
24. 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
25. Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter
26. Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word. - Alice McDermott
27. Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective. - Maryanne Wolf
28. Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. - Ben Okri
29. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one. - George R. R. Martin
30. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee
31. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
32. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
33. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray Bradbury
34. If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. – J.K. Rowling
35. Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz
36. 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 J. Adler
37. Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. – Diane Duane
38. Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
39. Reading brings us unknown friends. – Honoré de Balzac
40. Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. – Louis L’Amour
41. No. I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material. – Sarah J. Maas
42. It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book. – Maureen Corrigan
43. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them. – Arnold Lobel
44. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. – Carl Sagan
45. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. – Paul Sweeney
47. Some books leave us free and some books make us free. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – Victor Hugo
49. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. – E.B. White
50. There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away. – Emily Dickinson
51. Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic. – Carl Sagan
52. Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. – Holbrook Jackson
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