31 Quotes related to reading this August

 31 Quotes related to reading this August

Feeling demotivated and finding it hard to drag through the day? Reading can offer you solace and give you the refreshment you badly need. Here are 31 quotes to encourage your reading habits this August.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read. – Jorge Luis Borges

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. – Abraham Lincoln

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K. LeGuin

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. – Edith Sitwell

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them. – George Saunders

Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. – James Gleick

We read to know we’re not alone. – William Nicholson

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. – Khaled Hosseini

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. – Virginia Woolf

Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds. – Roxane Gay

Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – R.L. Stine

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. – Alan Bennett, The History Boys

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. – John Waters

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne Herbert

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. – Ursula K. LeGuin

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. – Terry Pratchett

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. –Toni Morrison

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. – Lemony Snicket

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. – Gary Paulsen

Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness? – Saran MacLean

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree? – Christopher Paolini

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. – Stephen Fry

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. – Annie Proulx