“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.”— Alyxandra Harvey, amazon.com
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”— Neil Gaiman, theguardian.com
“Every word leaves a memory in your heart – and it the sum of these memories that form sentences, paragraphs, books.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“The most difficult thing to read is time…Maybe because it changes so many things.”— Erin Morgenstern, amazon.com
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that da…”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”— Alberto Manguel, amazon.com
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”— Peter Ackroyd, amazon.com
“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted,…”— Terry Goodkind, goodreads.com
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com