Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is bookish quotes. I chose ten quotes about reading that I just love.
- “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
- “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle
- “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
- “Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” – Barack Obama
- “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading.” – Susan Sontag
- “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
- “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
- “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
What’s your favorite bookish quote?
34 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Quotes”
C.S. Lewis had a wonderful quote about the importance of reading:
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realize it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others.”
Thanks for sharing yours! F. Scott Fitzgerald & James Baldwin (quoted at Artsy Reader Girl) appear to have had the same thought. I went with recent Kindle highlights.
I love that!
I love these quotes and the George Martin one is one of my own favourites.
It’s so beautifully said ❤️
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me” – C.S. Lewis
That’s a wonderful quote!
You’ve picked so many great bookish quotes! The ones by Martin and King are two of my favourite bookish ones as well 🙂
They are wonderful!
Oo that F. Scott Fitzgerald quote. Perfection.
I think so too! It was just so beautifully said ❤️
10 and 1 are particular favorites. Thanks for sharing these, Tessa.
They are so beautifully said ❤️
These are great and I like that they all relate to reading, Tessa💜 I still love the Emerson quote above the best.
It’s so beautifully said ❤️
Oooh, I love that Nora Ephron quote! I’d never heard it before, so thanks for sharing.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I’m so glad I could share a new quote for you!
Oh these are good! Several are on my favorites list too 🙂
I love all of them ❤️
You listed some of my favorites and also some new ones. Excellent list, Tessa!
These are great. I think a lot of us have included that Stephen King quote this week!
Here is my post for this week: https://portobellobookblog.com/2024/05/14/top-ten-tuesday-14th-may-2024-favourite-book-quotes-toptentuesday-bookrecommendations-scotbloggers-tuesdaybookblog/
It’s a great quote!
These are awesome quotes! I hope you’re having a happy Tuesday!
thank you!
These are all great quotes, Tessa. and I love that they are all about books and reading. I especially love 1 and 10. Two of my favourites are:
1.“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
2. “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, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Those are great quotes!
Classics!
Books are a uniquely portable magic……love that quote!
It’s such a simple sentence but it says so much!
Yes to that Emerson quote! So darn true!
Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-favorite-book-quotes/“>Top Ten Tuesday</a>. Thank you!
It really is ❤️
I can’t think of a specific bookish quote that I like. For me, books have helped me to forget and to remember.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/the-es-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-e/
Too true!
Love all these quotes about reading
They all rang so true for me 💕