“ We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise. Laurence Cossé
“ She trailed her fingers along the book spines as she wandered around the room. “My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space. Larissa Ione
“ A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and co… Fennel Hudson
“ Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on, and suddenly, I’m whisked into a world full of wonder and amazement. The universe bends to my w… Barbara Brooke
“ The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The qu… Lemony Snicket
“ Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me. Marina Simcoe
“ This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, y… Geoff Ryman
“ These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and… Mike Schmoker
“ To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. Criss Jami
“ Can I speak to Sayvyer, please?”“You’re looking for the savior? At 1:15 a.m.?”“No. her name’s Sayvyer.”“There’s no savior here. Especially not at 1:15 a.m. Zack Love
“ A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher. Idries Shah
“ It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be. Carew Papritz
“ We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. Gabrielle Zevin
“ I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awok… Malcolm X
