“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.”— Horace Mann, sites.google.com
“If you read a book, rate it. If you loved a book, share it. If you care about a book, talk it up. I cannot tell you the strength of word-of-mouth. It is vast. You have power.”— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com
“Books and writers give such immense and unexpected comfort, it really is something else. Grateful, as ever.”— Lisa Lucas, twitter.com
“My father loved The Old Man and the Sea, so I tried to love it. It left me unmoved. Mostly, I kept hoping the fish would get away.”— GQ, gq.com
“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls—with the great outside world.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“A man who possesses the art of correct reading will…instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing....The art of reading, as of learning, is this…to retain the essential, t…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“These writers, and their works, inspire us to keep pushing towards a truly intersectional, inclusive feminism that can truly topple the patriarchy once and for all.”— The Rumpus, therumpus.net
“I'm about to read the third book again. I'd like to refresh. Or, I've just never read it. I'm going to get the audio tapes.”— Archive-Jean-Bentley, mtv.com
“Also for the love of all things good, in case it’s not obvious, READING IS SUBJECTIVE. Think whatever you want. But don’t put it on the creator. We have enough to deal with.”— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com
“Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the…”— Cecil Rhodes, archive.org
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”— Charles Darwin, amazon.com
“Don’t label yourself a bad reader. You have a normal condition called “brain chatter” and I have found the best way to settle my brain down and pay attention to the text is to simply acknowledge when my brain is being extra noisy and has lots to “say” about what it’s reading. I literally tell my bra…”— Stephanie St.Claire, stephaniestclaire.com
“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Tell her to read whatever interests her & protect her if someone declares what she's reading to be trash. No one can fathom what happens between a human being & written language.”— Barry Lopez, amazon.com