A Reading Rainbow of Quotes

by | May 28, 2024 | blog post, Purpose

You and I don’t need reasons to read, do we? We don’t need motivational quotes either. But here are a few I relish – what might you add to the list?

  • What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.” ― Oprah
  • “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes
  • “You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.” ― Paul Rand

  • “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything 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, Pride and Prejudice
  • For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.” ― Audrey Hepburn
  • “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” ― Henry David Thoreau

  •  “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman
  •  “I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.” – David Foster Wallace
  • “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” – Jean Rhys
  • “Once you’ve read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” —Louis L’Amour
  • “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
  • . “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”― Pat Conroy
  •  “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, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”― Fernando Pessoa
  • “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.”― Khaled Hosseini
  • “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
  • “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”― Ray Bradbury
  •  That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” —Jhumpa Lahiri
  • “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelp
  • “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”― Ernest Hemingway
  • Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
  • “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” — Joan Didion
  • “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”― Diane Duane
  • “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” ― Abraham Lincoln
  •  “Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.” ― Toni Morrison
  • “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jacqueline Kennedy

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