“Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.”— Jeremy Collier, goodreads.com
“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.”— Voltaire, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”— Carol Shields, amazon.com
“So often, in the past too, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”— Vincent Van Gogh, webexhibits.org
“You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them … And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”— David Foster Wallace, medium.com
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.”— Malala Yousafzai, dailymail.co.uk
“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.”— Pete Hautman, goodreads.com
“If you go to someone’s house and they don’t have any books don’t [sleep with] them.”— John Waters, imdb.com
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”— Carol Shields, amazon.com
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”— B.F. Skinner, 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
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“The one mantra if you want to get good at something is not: Learn. Or read. Or study. Or dream. It’s do. Every day.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com