“Slowly, like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Books are like seeds: they come to life when you read them & grow spines & leaves. I need trees around me as I need books around me, so building bookshelves is something like planting trees.”— Roger Deakin, amazon.com
“I never bailed on a book when I was a kid. Like, once I started, I was along for the ride. And I don't remember thinking critically along the way.”— Rainbow Rowell, twitter.com
“You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a gir…”— Rosemarie Urquico, goodreads.com
“I hope when people ask what you’re going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you’ll say: ‘Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;’ or maybe just: ‘Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.’ And then smi…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“For the reader, a work of art can make a kind of mantra: by giving form to devastation, the poem rescues the reader from a darkness without shape or gravity; it is an island in a free fall; it becomes his companion in grief, his rescuer, a proof that suffering can be made somehow to yield meaning.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she…”— Rosemarie Urquico, patheos.com
“Concept: We go to a small bookstore. You lead me to the sections of all your favourite books, and explain the plots. You are excited, and I am just as happy because you’re sharing a part of yourself with me.”— lovingconcept, lovingconcept.tumblr.com
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“We can thank legendary filmmaker, John Waters, for this important point: ‘If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't f*ck them.’ What does that mean exactly? People who love to read yearn to explore other worlds, get lost in other dimensions, continue to learn, and grow as human b…”— Amanda Chatel, bustle.com
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“That, by way of a book, we have the ability to transcend what is immediate, what is merely personal, and to enter a consciousness not known to us, in some cases distinctly alien.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin; another’s voice; another’s soul.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com