“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis
“A reader lives in every person who picks up a book.” – Carol Lynch Williams
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes
“A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy is still there.” – Rafael Sabatini
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen COOKIE MONSTER QUOTE TODAY ME WILL LIVE IN THE MOMENT
“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 William Eliot
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” – Benjamin Franklin
“There is no substitute for reading, and there are no shortcuts to the kind of reading that makes a good writer.” – Stephen King
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell
“No two persons ever read the same book.” – Edmund Wilson
“The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it in a book.” – André Maurois
“I love the solitude of reading. I love the landscape of imagination.” – Tracy Chevalier
“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