My Top Ten List of my Favorite Quotes about Reading
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I know that reading is powerful and that great literature has made great contributions to society. It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who thinks that way. I’m sure many of you who read this will share in this sentiment. But beyond this, some of the greatest writers ever have had some wonderful things to say abut the contribution of reading in their own lives and in the lives of others.
10 “Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel as if I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escae and the opposite from escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day in 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
9 “We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.” Henry Miller
8 “Libraries raised me.” Ray Bradbury
7 “By reading the most interesting minds of history, we meditate with our minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.” Kurt Vonnegut
6 “In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.” Ralph Waldo Emmerson
5 “A fondness of reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.” Jane Austen
4 “When the Day of Judgment dawns, and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms, and say to Peter, ‘Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading’.” Virginia Woolf
3 “You think your pain and heartache are unprecedented in the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” James Baldwin
2 “For all I know, writing come from a superior devotion to reading.” Eudora Wealty
1 “The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.” Gustav Flaubert
It’s clear that reading great books make you great. I hope these quotes inspired you to read some more. Maybe it inspired you to think of your top ten list of favorite quotes on reading. Post your list in the comment section, or let me know what’s wrong with my list.
