“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
“The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith
“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.” – Christian Bauman
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” – Roald Dahl
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen
“Reading… a vacation for the mind… ” – Dave Barry
“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
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” – Lloyd Alexander
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” – Roberto Bolaño