8 Beautiful Quotes That Celebrate The Power Of Books
There’s something timeless about the way a great quote about reading can make you pause, smile, and feel understood. Whether it’s the comfort of a well-loved book or the thrill of a story that sweeps you away, these words remind us why we keep turning the page.
1.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin
2.
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King
3.
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
4.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis
5.
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
– Margaret Atwood
6.
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
– Charles Baudelaire
7.
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
8.
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of 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
