25 Quotes To Remind You To Never Stop Reading
Every so often, you stumble on a line in a book that stops you cold—because it feels like it was written just for you. These quotes don’t just live on the page; they stay with you, echoing in your thoughts, helping you make sense of your life. They remind you that books hold endless treasures waiting to be discovered—insight, comfort, clarity, and sometimes even the push you need to grow.
It’s moments like these that remind you why you should never stop reading. Because the next book might hold the exact words you need. Because stories connect us, challenge us, and remind us we’re not alone. And because within the pages of a book, there’s always another quote that could change everything.
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“If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. Don’t sleep with people who don’t read!”
— John Waters
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“I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting than yours will ever be.” — Elizabeth Scott
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“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” — Maya Angelou
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“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” — John Green
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a novel, must be intolerably stupid.” — Jane Austen
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“When I’m really into a novel, I’m seeing the world differently during that time – not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I’m actually walking around in a bit of a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.” — Colin Firth
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“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.” — Charlaine Harris
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“A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.” — Matt Mullenweg
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. 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. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” — Nora Ephron
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“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” — Cassandra Clare
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“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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“People who hate to read scare me. Good books have kept me alive.” — Unknown
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.” — Alan Bennett
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“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
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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman
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“You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.” — John Waters
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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!” — Dr. Seuss
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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” — David Bailey
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“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” — Anne Lamott
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“I always felt if I can get to a library, I’ll be okay.” — Maya Angelou
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“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” — Stephen King
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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley
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“To acquire the habit of reading Is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham
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“We read to know that we are not alone.” — C.S. Lewis
