Whenever you look at someone, do you also think about if the person reads? If yes, how did they start reading? What books they might or might not have read? What would be their favorite bookworm quotes? What would be their favorite book? Or what are the odds that both of you will have the same favorite author? Is it just me? Okay, fine.
Well, I also think a lot of more things than that, but I don’t think this is the time to talk about that. Here, you and I both will talk about some of my favorite bookworm quotes, that I am 110% sure you would also like and definitely take with you!
I think bookworm quotes really help a person give deeper insights into reading and help the person read a little more than they usually would. Nothing better than a person reading! Is it?
Here is a collection of 15 bookish quotes and quotes about reading that I loved and they somewhere, somehow made a difference in the way I read.
15 Bookworm Quotes For Every Reader!
How I got into reading was when I was in my school, 7th grade. It was one fine Thursday afternoon when I was sitting in the Library of my school where everyone was reading a magazine.
And to be extremely honest, I picked up a novel just to look “cool”. Yes, exactly that.
So, I picked up the novel and started reading the first few pages of the book and they got me hooked!
My reaction was:
No, wait a minute! This is actually interesting! 😳
Yes, this was my exact reaction!
So, what I mean to say is that the way I started reading was completely random, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can read these 15 dope, deep, and meaningful bookish quotes and kick off your reading process!
(In case you need some reading recommendations for beginners, we have that too, for you!)
It’ll be fun, I promise!
For now, here are 15 bookworm quotes for every reader and for those who are about to begin with their reading journey.
1. Sometimes, You Read a Book…
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
2. What Really Knocks Me…
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
3. Books Are The Ultimate…
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
John Green, An Abundance of Kathrines
4. Books Are The Quietest…
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot
5. You Think Your Pain…
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin
6. I Spent My Life…
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
7. A Good Library Will…
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
8. Reading is Escape, And…
“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
9. Isn’t It Odd How…
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.”
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
10. The Best Moments In…
“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. 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, The History Boys
11. It’s a Good Rule…
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
C. S. Lewis
12. We Read To Find…
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
13. Reading is Like Thinking…
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
Roberto Bolaño, 2666
14. For Some of Us…
“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 unfold 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, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
15. What an Astonishing…
“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, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Conclusion | Bookworm Quotes To Pump Up Your Reading
These bookworm quotes have pumped me up at least to read a little more. Even 2 pages of extra reading will do it for me. Reading is certainly one of the most wonderful things in life. I don’t need quotes that would motivate me to read. But there were some quotes that I loved and am pretty sure that you would love too.
These are also exquisite captions for your photos on Instagram and go perfectly well with all the bookstagram aesthetics.
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