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L ☰ Menu The 100 Best Quotes About Reading Published 3 years ago  You know our goal at Bookroo is to help you spend less time searching so you can spend more time actually reading! That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the 100 best quotes about reading. Read on to see the many insightful, witty, and motivating things that have been said about reading by authors, poets, scientists, artists, visionaries and even comedians. Let us know in the comments below which is your favorite, and what quotes you would add to the list! “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx “‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” – Mark Twain “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury "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 “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – Lena Dunham “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes “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 one book is like eating one potato chip.” – Diane Duane “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” – Orhan Pamuk “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” – Logan Pearsall Smith “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” – Saul Bellow “A good book is an event in my life.” – Stendhal “Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac “The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t“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. “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