Here are some of my favorite quotes about books and reading. Enjoy!
“We read to know we are not alone.” -C.S. Lewis
“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” -Dr. Seuss
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” -Frederick Douglas
“A home without books is a body without soul.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before” -Cliff Fadiman
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” -Victor Hugo
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
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. -Henry David Thoreau
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” -Oscar Wilde
“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
“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 William Eliot
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” -Gustave Flaubert
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” -Ray Bradbury
