“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”— Oscar Wilde, 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
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder an…”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.”— Agnes DeMille, amazon.com
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”— Frank Zappa, books.google.com
“When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see…”— Maureen Johnson, amazon.com
“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.”— Barack Obama,
“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into…”— Steven Johnson, amazon.com
“News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import. Even if it's fiction, it's probably better most of the time.”— Evan Williams, techcrunch.com
“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”— Jonathan Gottschall, amazon.com