“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has co…”— Alan Bennett, amazon.com
“'Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?' Mo had said. 'As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. And then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly you…”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”— John Green, amazon.com
“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.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com