1. "A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
—
Neil Gaiman
2. "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're
all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of
yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That
doesn't happen much, though."
3. "Reading is the sole means by which we slip,
involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice,
another’s soul."
—
Joyce Carol Oates
4. "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable
that is spelled out is a spark."
—
Victor Hugo
5. "What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,
rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing
to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are
and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they
show us how to live and die."
—
Anne Lamott
6. "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the
life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain
a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did
when I was young."
—
Maya Angelou
7. "A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten
the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
—
Madeleine L’Engle
8. "We read to know that we are not alone."
—
C.S. Lewis
9. "Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve
accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading
makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is
the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with
reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with
someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist.
Reading is bliss."
—
Nora Ephron
10. "What is reading but silent conversation?"
—
Walter Savage Landor
11. "You think your pain and your heartbreak are
unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that
taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that
connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been
alive."
—
James Baldwin
12. "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing."
13. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like
reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have
a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent
library."
14. "Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or
like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to
live."
―
Gustave Flaubert
15. "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you
already have inside you."
16. "I read a book one day and my whole life was
changed."
17. "Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."
—
Mary Schmich
18. "Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to
spend my whole life in reading it."
19. "It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of
time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book."
―
Nella Last
20. "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this
weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will
never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the
book."
21. "The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me
just as if I had gained a new friend."
—
Oliver Goldsmith
22. "You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the
last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
—
Paul Sweeney
23. "Books may well be the only true magic."
―
Alice Hoffman
24. "Words can be like X-rays if you use them
properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
25. "Reading takes us away from home, but more important,
it finds homes for us everywhere."
—
Hazel Rochman
26. "Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a
place I can go and be happy."
—
J.K. Rowling
27. "Once you learn to read, you will be forever
free."
—
Frederick Douglass
Happy Reading!
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