Inspiring Quotes About Reading for Students: A Collection to Ignite Passion

"Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you."

- Barack Obama

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

- Ray Bradbury

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Reading will make you free."

- Paul Rand

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

- Jane Austen

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

"What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing."

- Oprah

"It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading."

- Katherine Patterson

"One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children."

- Carl Sagan

"So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky."

- William James

"Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind."

- Toni Morrison

"I have challenged myself that I will read thousands of books and I will empower myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."

- Malala Yousafzai

"To learn to read is to light a fire."

- Victor Hugo

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

"One of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author or a story, we also have a better understanding of people unlike ourselves. Books cultivate empathy."

- Sarah Jessica Parker

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

- Jean Rhys

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."

- James Baldwin

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all."

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."

- Roald Dahl

"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

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them."

- Judy Blume

"Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible."

- Barack Obama

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't."

- Mark Twain

"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book."

- Frank Serafini

"Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

- Victor Hugo

"If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books."

- Roald Dahl

"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!"

- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943

"Read, because that’s the way you learn how the language works. That’s the way you learn about emotion, on paper. That’s how you find out how stories are fastened, by reading and reading and reading."

- Yolen

"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child."

- May Ellen Chase

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."

- Neil Gaiman

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him."

- Maya Angelou

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one."

- George R.R. Martin

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

- Joyce Carol Oates

"A word after a word after a word is power."

- Margaret Atwood

"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope."

- Kofi Annan

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."

- Paul Auster

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading."

- Elizabeth Hardwick

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."

- Emilie Buchwald

"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."

- John Green

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things–which you had thought special and particular to you."

- Alan Bennett

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

- Kate DiCamillo

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."

- Maya Angelou

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

- Charles W. Eliot

"There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all."

- Jacqueline Kennedy

"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

- S.I. Hayakawa

"I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp."

- JK Rowling

"Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends."

- Karen Witemeyer

"Read, read, read."

- William Faulkner

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

- Heinrich Mann

"A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever."

- Louis L’Amour

"Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything."

- Tomie dePaola

"It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can."

- Jane Hamilton

"A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read."

- Mark Twain

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

- William Godwin

"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds."

- William Ellery Channing

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

- Anna Quindlen

"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

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

- Groucho Marx

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island."

- Walt Disney

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

- Ray Bradbury

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

- Edmund Burke

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."

- Mary Schmich

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

- Stephen King

"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Books train your mind to imagination to think big."

- Taylor Swift

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

- Charles Baudelaire

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."

- Emma Thompson

"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you."

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."

- J.K. Rowling

"I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real."

- Nora Ephron

"Books may well be the only true magic."

- Alice Hoffman

"Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work."

- Khaled Hosseini

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this."

- Dave Eggers

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."

- Franz Kafka

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'This could change your life.'"

- Helen Exley

"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

- Cassandra Clare

"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

- Garrison Kellor

"Once you've read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

- Louis L'Amour

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book."

- Mary Ann Shaffer

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’ve always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds."

- Taylor Jenkins Reid

"I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes."

- Emma Watson

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul."

- Joyce Carol Oates

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"

- Helen Exley

"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

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

- John Locke

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest."

- C.S. Lewis

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

- Confucius

"The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read."

- Tom Clancy

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Never give up on a child who is struggling to read. With the right help, they can overcome any obstacle."

- Dr. Timothy Shanahan

"When I say to a parent, “read to a child,” I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate."

- Mem Fox

"You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me."

- Strickland Gillilan

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

- Roald Dahl

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

"When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again."

- Rumer Godden

"We read to know we are not alone."

- C.S. Lewis

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

- Marcel Proust

"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

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall."

- Roald Dahl

"There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things."

- Jeffrey Eugenides

"Think before you speak. Read before you think."

- Fran Lebowitz

"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read."

- Abraham Lincoln

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

- Lady Montagu

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it."

- Cornelia Funke

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

- François Mauriac

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you."

- Henry Miller

"There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away."

- Emily Dickinson

"Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial."

- L.R. Knost

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

- E.P. Whipple

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

- Kathleen Norris

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- Mayken in France Originally from Germany

"Comics are a gateway drug to literacy."

- Art Spiegelman

"Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."

- Voltaire

"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."

- Lena Dunham

"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."

- Coolio

"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them."

- Kate DiCamillo

"A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket."

- Proverb, unknown origin

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."

- Austin Phelps

"When you catch an adjective, kill it. No I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable."

- Oscar Wilde

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

- Groucho Marx

"The first draft is a skeleton .… just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising."

- Mark Twain

"If you want to write, you should pay attention to people — everybody has a story — and listen to people when they talk."

- Judy Blume

"This morning I took out a comma, and this afternoon I put it back again."

- Katherine Paterson

"Reading is not optional."

"Someone brilliant said, “A book is valuable chiefly for its power to inspire.”"

"Readers are actually great leaders. If the clothes you wear are far more costly than the books you buy, then you are not ready for any form of personal development."

"Wow! I was so inspired watching the video and I have such great hope that this tool will help with the minority language in our family. I can’t wait to try these things out!"

"Reading is brain food."

"They do not live that do not read."