Books. Books. Books. It’s no question that these cherished stories are a bookworms own form of drug. We love reading them, discussing them, re-reading them, and, of course, purchasing more. As a fellow book addict, I hope these quotes offer you some insight into exactly why you love diving into a book every chance you get. Enjoy!
1. “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
~Logan Pearsall Smith
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2. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
~ James Baldwin
Source: Harlequin Teen
3. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly-they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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4. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I got into the other room and read a book.”
~Groucho Marx
Source: We Heart It
5. “I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
~J.K. Rowling
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6. “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
~Franz Kafka
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7. “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read…”
~Keri Hulme, The Bone People
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8. “The world was hers for the reading.”
~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Source: Book Addict 24-7
9. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
~Joseph Addison
Source: We Heart It
10. “I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
~Margaret Atwood
11. “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
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12. “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
~Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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13. “Reading can be dangerous.”
~Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
Source: We Heart It
14. “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
~Joyce Carol Oates
Source: 7 Themes
15. “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
Source: The Persian Closet
16. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
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17. “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
~Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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18. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
~Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
As always, friends, happy reading!
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