2. “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
3. “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.” –
4. “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.” –
5. “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” – May Ellen Chase
6. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
7. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
8. “A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.” – Anonymous
9. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” – Lloyd Alexander
10. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
11. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” –
12. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
13. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax. All you need is a book!” – Dr. Seuss
14. “The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McCleod Bethune
15. “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
16. “From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.” – Helen Hayes
17. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” –
18. “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” – Jane Hamilton
19. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
20. “The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” – Tom Clancy
21. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” –
22. “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” – William Godwin
23. “If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
24. “Books train your mind to imagination to think big.” – Taylor Swift
25. “Books shouldn’t be daunting. They should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” – Roald Dahl
26. “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” – J.K. Rowling
27. “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” – Gary Paulsen
28. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” – Harry S. Truman
29. “Kids lose themselves in books, they find themselves there too.” – Lewis Keegan
30. “You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.” – Sherry K. Plummer
31. “Be awesome! Be a book nut!” – Dr. Seuss
32. “To learn to read is to light a fire.” –
33. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” – Honore de Balzac
34. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Richard Steele
35. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke
36. “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Chinese Proverb
37. “If you open a book, you open your mind.” – Anonymous
38. “There’s so much more to a book than just the reading.” – Maurice Sendak
39. “Readers are lucky—they will never be bored or lonely.” – Natalie Babbitt
40. “There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away.” –
41. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling
42. “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” – Holbrook Jackson
43. “Reading is dreaming with open eyes.” – Anonymous
44. “Reading—a vacation for the mind.” – Dave Barry
45. “Reading makes the world big.” – Anonymous
46. “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.” – Judy Blume
47. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” – Kate DiCamillo
48. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” – C.S. Lewis
49. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” –
50. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” – Paul Sweeney
51. “Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.” – Alberto Manguel
52. “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” –
53. “Reading, for me, is spending time with a friend.” – Gary Paulsen
54. “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” – Roald Dahl
55. “To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.” – Chinese Proverb
56. “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.” –
67. “You are never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss
58. “Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.” – Marilyn Jager Adams
59. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled, ‘This could change your life.’” – Helen Exley
60. “I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.” – J.K. Rowling
61. “Kids will remember the books you read, not the stuff you bought them. Kids outgrow stuff, they never outgrow adventures.” – Anonymous
62. “Reading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible.” –
63. “Books hold a magical appeal for children that goes far beyond the stories they contain.” – Dr. Marion Blank
64. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler
65. “Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all.” – Phillip Pullman
66. “You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than you can never be—I had a mother who read to me.” – Strickland Gillilan
67. “When I say to a parent, ‘Read to a child,’ I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.” – Mem Fox
68. “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
69. “Books are the quietest of friends. They are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot
70. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” –
71. “In books, I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen
72. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” – Emilie Buchwald
73. “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” –
74. “Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.” – Anonymous
75. “Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
76. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer J. Adler
77. “No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally—and often far more—worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.” – C.S. Lewis
78. “Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.” – Oprah Winfrey
79. “The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.” – Rachel Anders
80. “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” – James Lowell
81. “Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” – Jesse Lee Bennett
82. “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way to his heart.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
83. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R. R. Martin
84. “You cannot open a book without learning something.” –
85. “Reading gives us a place to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
86. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
87. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
88. “I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.” – Coolio
89. “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray—go throw your TV set away, and in its place, you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – Roald Dahl
90. “The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I haven’t read.” – Abraham Lincoln
91. “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” – Austin Phelps
92. “I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.” – Dr. Seuss
93. “So many books, so little time.” – Frank Zappa
94. “TV—If kids are entertained by 2 letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with 26. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book.” – Anonymous
95. “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.” – Dr. Seuss
96. “You are never alone when you are lost in the magic of a book.” – Marie Lu
97. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books. And that’s kind of the same thing.” – Anonymous
98. “Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” – Betty Smith
99. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
100. “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations, something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” – Katherine Patterson
101. “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” – Kofi Annan
102. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.” –
103. “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” – Dr. Seuss
104. “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx
105. “Don’t give up reading, the more you practice, the easier it will get.” – Anonymous
106. “Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” – Hazel Rochman
107. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” –
108. “One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzei
109. “Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.” – Oprah Winfrey
110. “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
111. “Reading is not optional.” – Walter Dean Myers
112. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company, by the way, a counselor—a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
113. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted.” – Roald Dahl
114. “There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are some kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.” – James Patterson
115. “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person.” – Carl Sagan
116. “The easiest way to open your mind to new ideas and concepts is to open a book and read.” – Anonymous
117. “I’m wondering what to read next.” – Roald Dahl
118. “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” – Margaret Walker
119. “I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.” – Orhan Pamuk
120. “Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important.” – Neil Gaiman