Check out these inspiring quotes about books and the value of reading
I recently shared some quotes about writing, and in the past, I’ve published two other posts with quotes about writing here and here. My favorite of all these is what the Bible says about writing. Here are some quotes about books.
Here are some related sayings, not about writing as much as quotes about books and the importance of reading.
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” -Frederick Douglass
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. “ -Orhan Pamuk
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” -Margaret Fuller
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges
“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.” -Jean Fritz
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Saint Augustine of Hippo
“When you read a book, you hold another’s mind in your hands.” -James Burke
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” -Italo Calvino
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition,” -Henry Miller
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.” -Gore Vidal
“A childhood without books—that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” -Astrid Lindgren
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” -Virginia Woolf
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader, the writer learns.” -P.L. Travers
With these writing quotes in mind, let’s go find a good book to read.
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Peter Lyle DeHaan is an author, blogger, and publisher with over 30 years of writing and publishing experience. Check out his book Successful Author FAQs for insider tips and insights.