“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.”— Alyxandra Harvey, 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
“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
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”— Françoise Sagan, news.bbc.co.uk
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”— Joanne Harris, goodreads.com
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”— Joanne Harris, joannechocolat.tumblr.com
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”— Anne Tyler, rarebooksfirst.wordpress.com
“To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.”— Carlos María Domínguez, amazon.com
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”— Maurice Sendak, harpers.org
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructe…”— Donald Miller, amazon.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