Reading Quotes

These 14 quotes on reading come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! — Jane Austen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Jane Austen
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. — Orhan Pamuk
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. — Stephen King
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. — Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. — Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Abraham Lincoln
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