“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
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”— Groucho Marx, amazon.com
“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.”— Lisa Schroeder, amazon.com
“This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.com
“Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture — but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine — but if you bet against text, you will lose.”— Tim Carmody, kottke.org
“If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com