--- title: "13 Reason Read Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 13 Reason Read quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Reason Read sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/lisa-unger-3678_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-fi_2485523.png" --- > [I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-unger/i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-find-out-what-s-going-to-happen/) [Lisa Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-unger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/lisa-unger-3678_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-fi_2485523.png) > [I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-bauman/i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-because-it-s-all-there-is-for-me/) [Christian Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-bauman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/christian-bauman-59227_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-becau_2039918.png) > [If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-he-can-give-his-readers-no-reason-why-they-should-read-his-book/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/ayn-rand-59_book_if-he-can-give-his-readers-no-reason-why_1656904.jpg) > [Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/nowadays-i-know-the-true-reason-i-read-is-to-feel-less-alone-to-make/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_nowadays-i-know-the-true-reason-i-read-i_877802.png) > [There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-b-weiss/there-s-a-reason-you-can-still-read-thucydides-and-it-still-makes/) [D. B. Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-b-weiss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01f/d-b-weiss-18501_books_there-s-a-reason-you-can-still-read-thuc_2065909.jpg) > [“But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-strorm/but-the-main-reason-you-should-read-this-is-that-i-don-t-see-why-i/) [David Strorm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-strorm/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a71/david-strorm-231560_humor_but-the-main-reason-you-should-read-this_1460665.jpg) > [My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graydon-carter/my-suggestion-to-newspapers-everywhere-is-to-give-the-public-a-reason/) [Graydon Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graydon-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47e/graydon-carter-6607_appeals_my-suggestion-to-newspapers-everywhere-i_1611763.png) > [Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/few-are-sufficiently-sensible-of-the-importance-of-that-economy-in/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/anonymous-1_book_few-are-sufficiently-sensible-of-the-imp_109156.jpg) > [Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/reading-is-professionally-important-for-me-to-keep-tuned-in-to-what-s/) [Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/patrick-rothfuss-145_dies_reading-is-professionally-important-for_2948510.jpg) > [I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lil-wayne/i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-googled-myself-but-i-do-read-some-things-i/) [Lil Wayne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lil-wayne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/lil-wayne-62_figures_i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-googled-myself-b_3122771.jpg) > [“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-percy/don-t-forget-the-most-basic-reason-we-read-to-discover-what-happens/) [Benjamin Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-percy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/benjamin-percy-17850_books_don-t-forget-the-most-basic-reason-we-re_2382496.jpg) > [“The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-edmundson/the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-and-freud-and-dickens-is-not/) [Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-edmundson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/mark-edmundson-35432_reason-read_the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-a_2762791.jpg) > [“There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-dewitt/there-are-people-who-think-contraception-is-immoral-because-the-2/) [Helen DeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-dewitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e91/helen-dewitt-19555_books_there-are-people-who-think-contraception_2293925.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reason-read/#itemlist", "name": "Reason Read Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lisa Unger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-unger/i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-find-out-what-s-going-to-happen/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/lisa-unger-3678_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-fi_2485523.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/lisa-unger-3678_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-fi_2485523.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/lisa-unger-3678_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-to-fi_2485523.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.” — Lisa Unger", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christian Bauman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-bauman/i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-because-it-s-all-there-is-for-me/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/christian-bauman-59227_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-becau_2039918.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/christian-bauman-59227_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-becau_2039918.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/christian-bauman-59227_books_i-write-for-the-same-reason-i-read-becau_2039918.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.” — Christian Bauman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-he-can-give-his-readers-no-reason-why-they-should-read-his-book/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/ayn-rand-59_book_if-he-can-give-his-readers-no-reason-why_1656904.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/ayn-rand-59_book_if-he-can-give-his-readers-no-reason-why_1656904.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/ayn-rand-59_book_if-he-can-give-his-readers-no-reason-why_1656904.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him…” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Zadie Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/nowadays-i-know-the-true-reason-i-read-is-to-feel-less-alone-to-make/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_nowadays-i-know-the-true-reason-i-read-i_877802.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_nowadays-i-know-the-true-reason-i-read-i_877802.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_nowadays-i-know-the-true-reason-i-read-i_877802.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness…” — Zadie Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "D. 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But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Patrick Rothfuss" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/reading-is-professionally-important-for-me-to-keep-tuned-in-to-what-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/patrick-rothfuss-145_dies_reading-is-professionally-important-for_2948510.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/patrick-rothfuss-145_dies_reading-is-professionally-important-for_2948510.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/patrick-rothfuss-145_dies_reading-is-professionally-important-for_2948510.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not…” — Patrick Rothfuss", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lil Wayne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lil-wayne/i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-googled-myself-but-i-do-read-some-things-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/lil-wayne-62_figures_i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-googled-myself-b_3122771.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/lil-wayne-62_figures_i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-googled-myself-b_3122771.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f32/lil-wayne-62_figures_i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-googled-myself-b_3122771.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... 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Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and cityscapes and exquisitely crafted metaphors works in service of story, contributing to the momentum that will propel your readers forward.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Benjamin Percy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-percy/don-t-forget-the-most-basic-reason-we-read-to-discover-what-happens/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/benjamin-percy-17850_books_don-t-forget-the-most-basic-reason-we-re_2382496.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/benjamin-percy-17850_books_don-t-forget-the-most-basic-reason-we-re_2382496.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/benjamin-percy-17850_books_don-t-forget-the-most-basic-reason-we-re_2382496.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. 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You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with an \"alienated majesty”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Edmundson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-edmundson/the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-and-freud-and-dickens-is-not/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/mark-edmundson-35432_reason-read_the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-a_2762791.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/mark-edmundson-35432_reason-read_the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-a_2762791.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/mark-edmundson-35432_reason-read_the-reason-to-read-blake-and-dickinson-a_2762791.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more…” — Mark Edmundson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. 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