“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Joseph Addison
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
– Ray Bradbury
A book is a dream you hold in your hands.
—Neil Gaiman
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
– Roald Dahl
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
– Groucho Marx
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
– Arnold Lobel
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.
—Malorie Blackman
Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
—William Styron
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