Reading helps develop a lot of important skills in life, not just for students, but for everyone. The ability to read and understand texts in many forms is a skill that will help you improve your understanding of the world around you. It is an essential life skill and should be encouraged.
Reading can help you learn more about the world, develop your critical thinking skills, and become a better thinker. It also boosts your vocabulary and leads to a broader range of career options and job opportunities. It can also help you examine issues and make decisions that matter to you.
The amount of reading required varies by person, but experts recommend reading at least 30 minutes a day for basic benefits.
The following are the 45 most inspirational quotes about reading
1. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” ― Neil Gaiman
2. “An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” ― Thomas Wharton
3. “When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.” — Clifton Fadiman
4. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” ― Orhan Pamuk
5. “The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.” ― Jonathan Franzen
6. “The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who can’t read.” — Unknown
7. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” ― Kate DiCamillo
8. “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates
9. “There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion.” — Sven Birkerts
10. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” ― Anna Quindlen
11. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” — Edmund Burke
12. “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” — Harold Bloom
13. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Richard Steele
14. “Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” ― William Styron
15. “Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.” ― Oprah
16. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” ― Abraham Lincoln
17. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
18. “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.” — Vladimir Nabokov
19. “Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.” – Pam Allyn
20. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” ― Lloyd Alexander
21. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius
22. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” ― Garrison Keillor
23. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo
24. “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
25. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
26. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham
27. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley
28. “Reading brings us unknown friends” ― Honoré de Balzac
29. “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” ― George R.R. Martin
30. “One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.” — Ishmael Reed
31. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac
32. “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
33. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.” ― Carl Sagan
34. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” ― Mary Mcleod Bethune
35. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin
36. “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” ― Samuel Johnson
37. “Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it’ll be too dark to read.” — Unknown
38. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” ― Roald Dahl
39. “Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.” — Charles Dudley Warner
40. “Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.” ― Ben Okri
41. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ― Rene Descartes
42. “The wise man reads both books and life itself.” — Lin Yutang
43. “We read to know we’re not alone.” ― William Nicholson
44. “To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.” — Chinese Saying
45. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
