We’ve compiled a list of famous quotes about reading, from philosophers to presidents.
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what are some quotes about reading?
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We list some of the most inspiring, funny and inspirational quotes on reading from some of the greats. For centuries, people have found comfort and inspiration through the words of others. Whether it’s to further your knowledge or escape to another world, the culture around the written word has helped shape today’s society.
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Below, Blackpool Grand has compiled a list of our most beloved quotes, from authors, activists, visionaries, actors, philosophers, poets and more. quotes about reading can inspire you to take the next steps in your reading journey and remind you what it’s all about. so what are you waiting for?
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famous phrases about reading
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before dying . . . the man who never reads lives only one.”
george r.r. Martin (American novelist and short-story writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is the author of the epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones) >
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“Until I feared losing control, I never liked reading. you don’t like to breathe.”
harper lee (the american novelist is best known for her 1960 novel to kill a mockingbird)
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“you can never get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough for me.”
c.s. lewis (british writer and lay theologian)
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“I think television is very educational. every time someone turns on the TV, I go into the other room and read a book.”
groucho marx (American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star)
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“classic”: a book that people praise and do not read”.
mark twain (American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and speaker).
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“so please, oh please, we beg you, we pray, throw out your television and put up a beautiful wall shelf instead.”
Roald Dahl (Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot).
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“the more you read, the more things you will know. the more you learn, the more places you will go.”
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dr. Seuss (American children’s book author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker)
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“books are a unique portable magic.”
stephen king (American author of horror, supernatural fiction, thriller, crime, science fiction, and fantasy novels)
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“I always carried two books in my pocket, one to read and the other to write.”
robert louis stevenson (Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, best known for writing Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
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“The person who deserves the most pity is a lonely person on a rainy day who cannot read.”
Benjamin Franklin (Founding Fathers of the United States. A scholar, was a noted writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat)
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“There is more treasure in the books than in all the loot of the pirates on Treasure Island.”
walt disney (american businessman, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer).
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“we are of the opinion that instead of letting books rust behind an iron fence, away from the common gaze, it is better to let them wear out when you read them.”
jules verne (french novelist, poet and playwright)
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“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
malcolm x (black muslim minister and human rights activist)
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“I am passionate about teaching children to become readers, to feel comfortable with a book, without getting discouraged. books shouldn’t be intimidating, they should be fun, exciting, and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives you a great advantage.”
Roald Dahl (British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter and wartime fighter pilot)
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you wouldn’t read yourself.”
george bernard shaw (Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist)
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“books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his are not very new after all.”
abraham lincoln (American statesman and lawyer who was the 16th president of the united states from 1861 until his assassination in 1865)
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“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who cannot.”
mark twain (American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and speaker)
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“Show me a family of readers, and I’ll show you the people who move the world.”
napoléon bonaparte (french political and military leader)
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“I guess there are never enough books.”
john steinbeck (american author and winner of the 1962 nobel prize for literature)
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“Despite the enormous number of books, how few people read! and if one reads profitably, one would realize how many stupid things the common herd is content to swallow every day.”
voltaire (french writer, historian and philosopher of enlightenment)
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“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
j.k. rowling (joanne rowling) ch, obe (British author and philanthropist – Harry Potter fame)
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“someone who only reads newspapers and, in the best of cases, books by contemporary authors, seems to me to be an extremely myopic person who despises glasses. he is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his time, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. ”
Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist, universally recognized as one of the two greatest physicists of all time)
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“There is no frigate like a book to take us land.”
emily dickinson (american poet)
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