30 Quotes related to reading this April

 30 Quotes related to reading this April

Reading inspires you and strengthens your brain. It can also reduce stress levels and that's why you need to start reading today. Here are 30 quotes to encourage your reading habits this April.

1.      Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

2.      For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. - Audrey Hepburn

 

3.      Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. - Gary Paulsen

4.      From the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way. - Gordon B. Hinckley

 

5.      Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. - Voltaire

 

6.      How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau

7.      Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer J. Adler

8.      A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. - C.S. Lewis

 

9.      It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Arthur Conan Doyle

 

10.   Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

 

11.   What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright. - Gustave Flaubert

 

12.   I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. - Wisława Szymborska

 

13.   Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. - Holbrook Jackson

 

14.   You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child. - Anita Merina

 

15.   Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. - David Quammen

 

16.   Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift. - Kate DiCamillo

 

17.   Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

18.   A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. – Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

19.   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

20.   Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? Mo had said…As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar. – Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

21.   When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own. – John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous

22.   We live for books. – Umberto Eco

23.   I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. – Franz Kafka

24.   An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. – Thomas Wharton

25.   Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai

26.   Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. – Mark Haddon

27.   If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it. – Beverly Cleary​

28.   The story is truly finished — and meaning is made — not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters. – Celeste Ng

29.   What isn't said is as important as what is said. – Colson Whitehead

30.   Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. – Donna Tartt​