National Read Across America Day 2021: 17 Inspiring Quotes About Reading

March 2 marks National Read Across America Day, so grab your favorite book and celebrate the joy of reading.

The National Education Association (NEA) established National Read Across America Day in 1998, National Today explained. The day coincides with the birthday of children's book author Dr. Seuss.

The simple, yet important, purpose of the event is to celebrate reading and, to get children interested in it. What's more, the event is also a good way to cultivate compassion and promote inclusion through reading, the NEA said.

"NEA's Read Across America uplifts inclusive stories so that kids across the country can see themselves reflected in a book. Join us in making reading fun for every reader," founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, Marley Dias, said, NEA noted.

People can celebrate the day by revisiting their favorite book, starting a new one they haven't read yet, hosting a reading party or starting a family book club. No matter how you choose to celebrate, even if it's by dressing up as their favorite book character, National Read Across America Day is the perfect time to show your love for reading and perhaps, influence others to start their own reading habit too.

This Tuesday, let's have a look at some quotes about reading that will inspire you to pick up a book, courtesy Celadon Books, Bookroo and Goodreads:

• "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller
• "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
• "The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries." – Descartes
• "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." – Harper Lee
• "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." – Walt Disney
• "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." – George R.R. Martin
• "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." – Oscar Wilde
• "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." – Joan Didion
• "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
• "A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood
• "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
• "Think before you speak. Read before you think." – Fran Lebowitz
• "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." – Mortimer J. Adler
• "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." – Orhan Pamuk
• "I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them." – Emma Thompson
• "These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." – Roald Dahl
• "Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." – Jeanette Winterson