“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“I’m going to be honest with you, I’m not a reader. I don’t like to read long books. I like to read news. So I couldn’t tell you that there was a book that I read that changed my life. More so, I love to read news and I love to read commentary and I love to watch TV. I love to watch news. I’m a watch…”— Tomi Lahren, dailycaller.com
“We can thank legendary filmmaker, John Waters, for this important point: ‘If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't f*ck them.’ What does that mean exactly? People who love to read yearn to explore other worlds, get lost in other dimensions, continue to learn, and grow as human b…”— Amanda Chatel, bustle.com
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I spotted Danny lounging in his hammock, one hand holding a book open on his stomach and, in the other hand, a bottle of beer, and I wondered if he might have the right idea about how to live after all.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”— Bohumil Hrabal, amazon.com
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“That, by way of a book, we have the ability to transcend what is immediate, what is merely personal, and to enter a consciousness not known to us, in some cases distinctly alien.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin; another’s voice; another’s soul.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“There are pleasures in reading so startling, so intense, they shade into pain. The realization that one’s life has been irrevocably altered by . . . can it be mere words? Print on a page? The most life-rending discoveries involve what has in fact never been thought, never given form, until another’s…”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“If I was on a desert island and could only have one book, I'd choose "Atlas Shrugged." Because that's 1,088 pieces of toilet paper.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.”— J.K Rowling, news.bbc.co.uk
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, amazon.com
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“Sensitivity takes time, and the culture of writing has sped up in some ways that make me uncomfortable.”— Gemma Sieff, 0s-1s.com