Books over people? I get it.
If your idea of a perfect day involves a cozy blanket, a cup of tea, and a good story, you’re in the right place.
These 35 reading quotes will make you feel seen, understood, and even more obsessed with your to-be-read pile.
Consider this your sign to grab a blanket and a book.
Now, let's get into these reading quotes!
1. “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
– William Styron
2. “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.” ― Sarah J. Maas
3. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
4. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr. Seuss
5. Sometimes we need fantasy to survive the reality
6. “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
7. “Reading… a vacation for the mind.” – Dave Barry
8. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
9. “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
10. "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
11. When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
12. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
13. “You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you’ll find.” ― Millie Florence,
14. “Of all things, I liked books best.” – Nikola Tesla
15. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer J. Adler
16. “So many books, so little time.” – Frank Zappa
17. “If you’re going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
18. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
19. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R. R. Martin
20. “So often a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.” – Vincent Van Gogh
21. Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
22. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
23. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
24. “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” – C.S. Lewis
25. “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” – Jane Smiley
26. She preferred most of all to live with flowers and music and to have a book, in quiet solitude.
27. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
28. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
29. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
30. “I have always imagined paradise to be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
31. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
32. “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein
33. If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.
34. Books are the seeds; your imagination is the garden
35. When reading, we don't fall in love with the characters appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.
I hope you enjoyed these reading quotes!
