"In the end, we’ll all become stories." – Margaret Atwood
"Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw." – David Mitchell
"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night." – Isabel Allende
"Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read." – Mark Twain
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." – Joseph Addison
"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while." – Malorie Blackman
"My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." – Malcolm X
"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write." – Annie Proulx
“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” – Edith Sitwell
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others." - Abraham Lincoln
"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." - Jane Smiley
"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." - Erasmus
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
