- “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”– Mary Schmich
- “Books train your imagination to think big.”– Taylor Swift
- “I even love the smell of books.”– Adriana Trigiani
- “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”– Kofi Annan
- “A good book has no ending.” —R. D. Cumming.
- “Reading… a vacation for the mind.” – Dave Barry
- “Reading is departure and arrival.” —Terri Guillemets
- “Literature is my Utopia” – Helen Keller
- “A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood
- “Not reading should be a sin.” — Unknown
- “Books are the movies of our minds.” — Unknown
- “Books are things of fiction that seem like reality.” — Unknown
- “What a blessing it is to love books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim
- “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” — Umberto Eco
- “There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” — Emily Dickinson
- “A book is a way for your imagination to be wild and free.” — Unknown
- “No two persons ever read the same book.” — Edmund Wilson
- “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Take a good book to bed with you – books do not snore.” — Thea Dorn
- “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” — Lemony Snicket
- “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” — Khaled Hosseini
- “You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.” — John Waters
- “What kind of life can you have in a house without books?” — Sherman Alexie
- “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare
- “I guess there are never enough books.” — John Steinbeck
- “What isn’t said is as important as what is said.” — Colson Whitehead
- “In the end, we’ll all become stories.” — Margaret Atwood
- “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”— Jhumpa Lahiri
- “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen
- “I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.” – Sarah J. Maas
- “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” – Fernando Pessoa
- “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” – Lisa Kleypas
- “An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” – Thomas Wharton
- “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” ― George R.R. Martin
- “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer Adler
- “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” —Diane Duane. All
- “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” —Stephen Fry
- “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” —Fran Lebowitz
- “Reading brings us unknown friends.”– Honore de Balzac
- “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” — Holbrook Jackson
- “Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” — Henry Stevens
- “’The end’ is one of the saddest sentences you’ll ever come across.” — Unknown
- “Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.” — Unknown
- “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” — Bill Watterson
- “If you’re looking for some magic in your life, open up a book.” — Unknown
- “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L’Amour
- “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Books are the escape you never knew you needed until you start reading.”— Unknown
- “The cheapest form of adventure is a book.” — Unknown
- “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”— Mark Haddon
- “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost
- “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” – Lloyd Alexander
- “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” – John Lubbock
- “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” – Lisa See
- “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” –Paul Sweeney
- “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” – Martin Farquhar Tupper
- “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”– J.K. Rowling
- “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”– Helen Exley
- “If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.”– Roald Dahl
- “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
- “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- “To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”— Geraldine Brooks
- “’Once upon a time’ is one of the most magical phrases you’ll ever read.”— Unknown
- “Don’t get into a relationship with someone who doesn’t own any books.”— Unknown
- “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” — Vera Nazarian
- “Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”— E.B. White
- “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” — Sir Francis Bacon
- “Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.” — James Gleick
- “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” — William Styron
- “‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” — Mark Twain
- “Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx
- “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” — Ursula K. LeGuin
- “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.” — Jorge Luis Borges
- “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
- “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard
- “I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” – François Mauriac
- “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo
- “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” — Emilie Buchwald
- “No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.” —Romain Rolland.
- “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw.
- “When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.” —Vincent Starrett
- “I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”– Benedict Cumberbatch
- “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”– Mason Cooley
- “A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”– Lyndon Baines Johnson
- “My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X
- “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!”— Betty Smith
- “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” — Toni Morrison
- “It’s hard to believe that reading words on pages can truly change your life for the better.” — Unknown
- “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” — Jean Rhys
- “Stories have endless possibilities and can take you any place your heart dreams of going.” — Unknown
- “If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.” — Beverly Cleary
- “I’ve always ready to figure out people more, and that includes good people and bad people.” –Gillian Flynn (Here are books sure to be the next Gone Girl >>)
- “Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” – Jacqueline Kelly
- “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” —Henry Ward Beecher.
- “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” —P. J. O’Rourke
- “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”– Stephen King
- “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”– Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
- “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
- “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor
- “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” — Kate DiCamillo
- “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” —Saul Bellow
- “I have always imagined paradise as a kind of library.” —Jorge Luis Borges.
- “Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.”– Carl Sagan
- “I love the printed word and have always appreciated the unique connection between author and reader.”– Oprah Winfrey
- “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” — Anna Quindlen
- “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”— Harold Bloom
- “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” — Jane Austen
- “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” — Ezra Pound
- “Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.” — Ursula K. LeGuin
- “Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” — A.S. Byatt
- “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for , years. To read is to voyage through time.” — Carl Sagan
- “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” – Jeanette Winterson
- “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
- “We are all unreliable narrators–all of us.”–Ruth Ware (Love Ruth Ware? Check out these classic thrillers for suspense junkies >>)
- “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island…” – Walt Disney
- “When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.” ― Chloe Thurlow
- “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” —Jane Smiley
- “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
- “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” — Salman Rushdie
- “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” — Alberto Manguel
- “Poetic language is a way of giving the sense of an answer, just a sense of one, that the story itself is unable to provide.” — Emily Ruskovich
- “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”– C.S. Lewis
- “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read.” —Mark Twain
- “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” — Lena Dunham
- “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” — Emma Thompson
