“At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear.”— Annie Dillard, 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
“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”— Scott Westerfeld, goodreads.com
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”— Joseph Addison, amazon.com
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”— Aravind Adiga, amazon.com
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”— Jorge Luis Borges, amazon.com
“Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.”— Neil Gaiman, neil-gaiman.tumblr.com
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theguardian.com
“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.”— William Gibson, ideas.ted.com