“ There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. Matt Haig
“ Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless. Anita Valle
“ In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for y… John Green
“ Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI've read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books. Lang Leav
“ No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. Susan Sontag
“ Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. Susan Sontag
“ To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. Richard Baxter
“ The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read. Tiffini Johnson
“ It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell I was the first to open it ... I valued that half-dream state of being los… Allison Hoover Bartlett
“ If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with y… Philip L. Moore
“ If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls. Terry Carr
“ Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams Shawn L. Bird
“ Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist. Adam Gopnik
“ Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetra… Peter Prange
“ In 1800s Paris, women were prohibited from studying the nude human form, because this would've ruined the wedding-night surprise. (Surprise! It's a penis.) Cracked.com
“ Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to pr… Jincy Willett
“ Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.' It was certainly an interesting… Michelle Cooper
