Importance of Reading

Reading not only has tremendous power when it comes to fueling the development of all aspects
of language ability, its importance to the entirety of a human life in this day and age really can’t
be overstated.
To help underscore this point, I’ve assembled 43 favorite quotes on the power and importance of
literacy. Cut yourself a big piece of cake and read along with me…

1. A book is a gift you can open again and again. —Garrison Keillor
2. Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. —Kofi Annan
3. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. —Frederick Douglass
4. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is
good for him. —Maya Angelou
5. 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
6. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. —Emilie Buchwald
7. One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to
children. —Carl Sagan
8. You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you
can never be. I had a mother who read to me. —Strickland Gillian
9. Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty.  It should be offered to them as
a precious gift. —Kate DiCamillo
10. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more
light. —Vera Nazarian
11. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. —
Groucho Marx
12. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. —May Ellen Chase
13. To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. —Victor Hugo
14. 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
15. When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone
again. —Rumer Godden
16. We read to know we are not alone.—C.S. Lewis
17. So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole
new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. —William James
18. There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. —
Jacqueline Kennedy
19. The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick
20. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a
favorite book. —Marcel Proust
21. Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble
and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of
hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a
Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in
the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the
face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. —L.R. Knost
22. Read, read, read. —William Faulkner
23. Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then
when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick
them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team. —
Karen Witemeyer
24. Books are a uniquely portable magic. —Stephen King
25. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. —E.P. Whipple
26. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it
be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” —Stephen Wright
27. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele
28. There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and
have them touch you back.—Jim Fiebig
29. A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”)
imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another
person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is
speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of
human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one
another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan
30. A house without books is like a room without windows. —Heinrich Mann
31. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. —Louis L’Amour
32. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and
everything about anything. —Tomie dePaola
33. 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
34. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think
decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen
35. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —Mark Twain
36. Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. —Art Spiegelman
37. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. —William Godwin
38. Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. —
Voltaire
39. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps
40. I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. —JK Rowling
41. Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day
happier. —Kathleen Norris
42. 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
43. I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges

Why is it important to read books?

Reading books (even bad books) makes your brain grow big and strong, just like pumping
weights does for your body. Reading books can help to increase your vocabulary and…
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Reading gives you knowledge and broadens your horizons, the more you read the smarter you
will be and the more doors of opportunity will open for you. 

for me it is very important,because reading is the best key to your 

sucess.!!

Reading books (even bad books) makes your brain grow big and strong, just like pumping
weights does for your body. 

Reading books can help to increase your vocabulary and broaden your views. Also, books
require you to use your imagination by creating a mental picture, and everyone's mental picture
is different, whereas videos present the same picture for everyone.
What is the importance of reading?
Reading gives you knowledge and broadens your horizons, the more you read the smarter you
will be and the more doors of opportunity will open for you. 

for me it is very important,because reading is the best key to your 

sucess.!!

Why is it important to read books?

Reading books (even bad books) makes your brain grow big and strong, just like pumping
weights does for your body. 

Reading books can help to increase your vocabulary and broaden your views. Also, books
require you to use your imagination by creating a mental picture, and everyone's mental picture
is different, whereas videos present the same picture for everyone.

Why Reading is So Important?

Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why that is so? In
this post, I will list out 8 reasons why reading is important. I hope you can really find out the
reason why reading is so important for you, so you can get a brand new desire to explore the
world of reading.
 
1. Expose Yourself to New Things
Through reading, you expose yourself to new things, new information, new ways to solve a
problem, and new ways to achieve one thing. Who knows – you might find your new hobbies
within it. Who knows – you might actually explore one thing you really like and it may end up
becoming your career and success in the future. Exploration begins from reading and
understanding.
 
2. Self Improvement
Reading does help you form a better you, doesn’t it?  Through reading, you begin understand the
world more. Through reading, you begin to have a greater understanding on a topic that interest
you; for example: how to build self confidence, how to make plan better before taking action,
how to memorize things better and more. All of these self improvements start from the reading;
through reading, you create a structured path towards a better understanding and better actions to
take in the future.
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. Elio-
3. Improve Understanding
The more you read, the more you understand one thing: the A to Z of a thing. Let me give an
example here: reading allows you learn more about crocodiles and their habits. That you need to
be aware of places it usually lurks for, the purpose of staying away from being harmed or bitten.
Or perhaps you can try by real life experience, in approaching the crocodile, to see what happen.
It can also help you find out the truth of something, right? Reading also increases the
understanding of the rules of life, in order for you to adapt, adopt and accommodate into the
society better. To play well in a game, you first need to understand the rules well.
 
4. Preparation to Action
Before you take action on anything, where should you seek for help and guidance? Reading is an
essential way which can help you out. In today’s world, getting reviews and feedback from other
people can make a big impact on your next decision, and the pros and cons of each choice. Read
about how to cook a meal; how to play chess; which place is nice for the holiday family trip;
read the menu before ordering food, read the manual before using a new gadget. These all can
help you become more prepared before you really get into it.
Read > Learn > Do > Achieve
Reading is a starting step of many things, which build a more solid stairs for you to climb up achieving
something big out there.
5. Gain Experience from Other People
When you are reading, you are actually gaining the knowledge and experience of someone. It
can hasten your success towards a goal, as you don’t need to repeat the same mistake while
focusing on the right path in achieving one thing. It’s like a mountain of gems for you to
discover in books, which contain people’s successes, failures and advice. Life is too short for you
to keep repeating the mistakes that had been done by other people in the past, in order for you to
reach the results that someone might already reached. There are more than four thousand
billionaires and 12 million millionaires today. To become one of them, the first thing is to learn
and get to know their past, what they did in the past that makes them where they are today.
Reading is a great path to get to know them, and learn from these great people.
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it
in a book.   | André Maurois
6. Tools of Communicating
Communication is the most important tool which can be transmitted through reading. As you
communicate through reading, you understand more, and thus you can communicate better with
people. As with a person that knows nothing, he hasn’t had anything to share, and he probably
doesn’t even understand what people are sharing. Through reading, you build a more solid
foundation for communication. It is one of the most important tools we use every day to connect
with each other. Whereas if you don’t read, you can’t even connect with the world and what
people are talking about out there, including understanding what this article is all about. Reading
connects you with the world.
 
7. Connecting Your Brain
When reading, you’re in full silence because reading connects directly to your brain. In silence,
you seek for more; in silence, your brain is clear and focuses. Thus, you learn and grow, and
therefore you feel and see from the point of view of the author about everything in life. Hence
you shape a better self.
Because silence exists with total abandon, it is fearless. Because silence is fearless, it holds the power that can
break through any barrier. | On Silence
8. Boost Imagination and Creativity
Reading exposes you to a world of imagination, showing you nothing is impossible in this world.
By reading, you are exploring a different angle to see a thing you’ve known, on how different
action leads to different results. Books are beyond imagination. It’s like a huge spider web,
where you keep linking to more and more to things you knew, and things you just learn,
structuring  new solutions and answers.
So in your opinion, why is reading so important to you?
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