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

31 Quotes related to reading this July

 31 Quotes related to reading this July

Reading is escape into another world. Here are 31 quotes to encourage your reading habits this July.

1. A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. – Walter Mosley

2. A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood

3. Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. – Steven Spielberg

4. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

5. Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. – William Faulkner

6. Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. – Louis L’Amour

7. Reading is departure and arrival. – Terri Guillemets

8. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – President Harry Truman

9. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. – Nora Ephron

10. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. – Robertson Davies

11. Leaders are always readers. – Kevin Trudeau

12. Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. – Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

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

14. Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. – A.S. Byatt, Possession

15. If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories. – Michael Ende

16. She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. – Louisa May Alcott

17. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. – Oscar Wilde

18. In the end, we’ll all become stories. – Margaret Atwood

19. Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. – Anne Brontë

20. I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. – Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

21. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert

22. So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone. – Roald Dahl, Matilda

23. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. – Cassandra Clare

24. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though. – J.D. Salinger

25. You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. – James Baldwin

26. Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire

27. If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. – Stephen King

28. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. – Robert Frost

29. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. – Paul Auster

30. I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. – Margaret Atwood

31. Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. – Sir Francis Bacon