“I do the same thing every day. I eat three meals, sleep six hours and read dusty old books the rest of the time. My life is about as devoid of anything funny as the great desert is of grass.”— Benjamin Harrison, presidential-power.org
“You are a language I am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read.”— Ashe Vernon, amazon.com
“Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?”— Rudy Franciso, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”— Flannery O’Connor, goodreads.com
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”— Anne Tyler, rarebooksfirst.wordpress.com
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com