Importance of Reading Quotes

Importance of reading quotes and quotes about the benefits of reading for young children. Below you will find a list of quotes about the importance of reading based on a previous article on this topic (See post here).You can also see our post with a list of Bilingual Quotes.

Quotes about the importance of reading

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. —Dr. Seuss

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” – Frank Serafini

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” – Kate DiCamillo

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. -Malorie Blackman

A book is a dream you hold in your hands. – Neil Gaiman

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. – Confucius

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry S Truman

The importance of reading should not be overlooked – Unknown

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. – S.I. Hayakawa

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. – Christopher Morley

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – Walt Disney

Books train your mind to imagination to think big. – Taylor Swift

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret Fuller

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. – Roald Dahl

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. – Emilie Buchwald

A book is a gift you can open again and again. —Garrison Keillor

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. – Albert Einstein

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason Cooley

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves. – Lemony Snicket

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him. —Maya Angelou

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing. – Unknown

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. – J.K. Rowling