"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one."

– George R.R. Martin

“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

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

– Dr. Seuss

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

– Walt Disney

“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

– Malcolm X

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

– J.K. Rowling

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

– Jeanette Winterson

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

– Ursula K. Le Guin

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

– J.K. Rowling

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

– Cicero

“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

– Jhumpa Lahiri

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one."

– George R.R. Martin