“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

      ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

      -

      “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

      ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

      -

      “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”

      ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

      -

      “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

      ― Madeleine L'Engle

      -

      “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

      ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

      -

      “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

      ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

      -

      “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

      ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

      -

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

      ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

      -

      “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

      ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

      -

      “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

      ― J.K. Rowling

      -

      “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

      ― Mortimer J. Adler

      -

      “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

      ― J.K. Rowling

      -

      “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

      ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

      -

      “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal.”

      ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

      -

      “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

      ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

      -

      “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”

      ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

      -

      “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

      ― Caroline Gordon

      -

      “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

      ― Abraham Lincoln

      -

      “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

      ― Dr. Seuss

      -

      “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”

      ― Judy Blume

      -

      “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and