Happy World Book Day 2024! In honor of World Book and Copyright Day, here are 30 inspirational statements from well-known writers.
Celebrate the tremendous influence that reading and books have on us on World Book and Copyright Day (2024) by using these 30 inspirational quotations from well-known authors.
Every year on April 23, World Book and Copyright Day, also known as World Book Day, is a celebration of the love of books and reading. UNESCO chose this date to honor notable authors like William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and as voracious readers, we can’t help but acknowledge the profound influence that reading and books have on our lives. You may attest to the books’ exceptional capacity for both entertainment and education if, like us, you find yourself more comfortable in the company of books than people.
Through exposure to many writers, universes, and civilizations, these packets of ink on paper provide us not only the opportunity to explore worlds beyond our own, but also to reach the most hidden corners of our own souls. Take a look at this collection of 30 inspirational quotations by well-known writers as World Book Day, which falls on Tuesday, draws attention to the importance of books as a bridge between generations and cultures.
30 POWERFUL QUOTES
- “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
- “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Chinese Proverb
- “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – René Descartes
- ‘That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet” – Jhumpa Lahiri
- ”Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world” – Malala Yousafzai
- “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me” – C.S. Lewis
- “So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa
- “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain
- “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
- “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – Neil Gaiman
- “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” – Virginia Woolf
- “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Jane Austen
- “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
- “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
- “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” – Mark Haddon
- “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.'” – Helen Exley
- “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” – Edward P. Morgan
- “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 William Eliot
- “The book you don’t read won’t help.” – Jim Rohn
- “Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.” – Walter Pater
- “A house without books is like a room without windows.” – Heinrich Mann
- “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” – Barbara Tuchman
- “A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “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
