Compiled by Sara Hardin

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.” – Horace Mann

Famous People

“It is our choices, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

–JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Book Quotes

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”

–Mark Twain

Famous Writers

“We read to know we are not alone.”

–CS Lewis

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“ ‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

–Frederick Douglass

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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

–Emily Dickinson

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“There is a line in 15th-century monastic rule that specifies: “No one shall read while others are trying to sleep.” Reading then was always done aloud, for literature is musical thought.” –Kim Stafford

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

– Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You’ll Go

Book Quotes

“You don’t need to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

– Ray Bradbury

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” –Oscar Wilde

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“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

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“I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.” – Nicholas Sparks

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us.”

– Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Book Quotes

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”

– Logan Pearsall Smith

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“Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world.” – Auggie Pullman in Wonder

Book Quotes

“What you read when you don’t have to determines how you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

– Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

Book Quotes

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

– Stephen King

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“Fill your house with books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

–Dr. Seuss

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“Reading is a means of thinking with someone else’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”

– Charles Scribner Jr.

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

– Lemony Snicket

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“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”

– Paul Theroux

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

Famous People

“When I’m really into a novel, I’m seeing the world differently during that time– not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I’m actually walking around in a bit of a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.” – Colin Firth

Famous People

“If you think reading is boring, you’re doing it wrong.” –Anonymous

“Reading is dreaming with open eyes.”

–Anonymous

“A book store is one of the only pieces of evidence we have left that people are still thinking.”

–Jerry Seinfeld

Famous People

“A man is known by the books he reads.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Book Quotes

“A writer only begins a book. The reader finishes it.”

–Samuel Johnson

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“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot in Treasure Island.” –Walt Disney

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“A room without books is like a body without

a soul.” –Cicero

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“Reading is not optional.”

– Walter Dean Myers

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“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

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“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.” – Harper Lee

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“There is creative reading

as well as creative writing.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled:

‘This could change your life’.”

– Helen Exley

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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

– Margaret Fuller

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“No two persons ever read the same book.”

–Edmund Wilson

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