“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”— Pierce Brown, amazon.com
“'I'm not a stranger,' I said, and pointed to his book. 'I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.'”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these a…”— Robin Williams, 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, Hazel, amazon.com
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”— David Mitchell, books.google.com
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com
“Don’t just collect books you have read, collect the books you haven’t read. It’s a testament to what you don’t know, and an on-hand resource whenever you need it.”— Nassim Taleb, thenextweb.com
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Date a girl who doesn't read, because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp edges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, t…”— Charles Warnke, thoughtcatalog.com
“A girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment.”— Charles Warnke, thoughtcatalog.com
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”— Charles William Eliot, books.google.com
“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”— Louis L’Amour, books.google.com
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”— Vera Nazarian, books.google.com
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”— Sherman Alexie, books.google.com