“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places
you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
“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.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“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
“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
“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.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Books are the ultimate Dumpers: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to
them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of
counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live
several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
“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
'she reads books as if, one is breathing air for live'
-Jane Smiley
Many people myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.'