The Masked Pixie's Top Ten Picks: Quotes About Books and Reading

Do you like reading? Do you like reading about reading? Here are 10 rad quotes about reading for you to read! Are you ready? Get reading!

1. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." 

     - Dr. Seuss (from I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!)

2. "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." 

     - Frederick Douglass

3. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." 

     - Walt Disney

4. "You cannot open a book without learning something." 

     - Confucius

5. "A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

     - Madeleine L'Engle

6. "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." 

     - Chinese Proverb

7. "Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." 

     - G. K. Chesterton

8. "A house without books is like a room without windows."

     - Horace Mann

9. "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." 

     - Abraham Lincoln

10. "Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!" 

     - Neil Gaiman

BONUS DR. SEUSS QUOTE: "Be awesome! Be a book nut!"