“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”— Neil Gaiman, 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, amazon.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”— John Gardner, amazon.com
“The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent; the job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves.”— John Green, youtube.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
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.”— George Lichtenberg, 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
“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