As an avid reader myself, I love reading what other bookworms have to say about books and reading. Below are a few of my favorite quotes on that topic. Or visit this page to access a lot of free printables and other fresh resources I’ve created just for book lovers like you:

50+ Quotes on Books & Reading

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
– Emilie Buchwald

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“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

“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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

– Allan Bloom

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
– Edmund Burke

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

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

– Lemony Snicket

“Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.”
– Oswald Chambers

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”
– Mary Ellen Chase

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

– Harper Lee

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
– Chinese proverb

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

– Joseph Joubert

“I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”
– Scott Corbett

“Never judge a book by its movie.”
– J. W. Eagan

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

– Dr. Seuss 

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
– Albert Einstein

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
– Joseph Addison

“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

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
– Virginia Woolf

“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.”

– Francois FéNelon

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“We read to know we’re not alone.”
– William Nicholson

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.”
– Paxton Hood

“If you believe everything you read, better not read.”
– Japanese proverb

“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

– Lloyd Alexander 

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
– James Russell Lowell

“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
– Mark Twain

“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

“The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
– Katherine Mansfield

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
– Samuel Johnson

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

– Mark Twain

“I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.”
– Groucho Marx

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

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

― C.S. Lewis

“A library is thought in cold storage.”
– Herbert Samuel

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King

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

― Ray Bradbury

“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”
– Bert Williams –

“Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
– Anna Quindlen

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

― C.S. Lewis

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