I've always loved reading for as far back as I can remember. I've always believed that reading has the ability to take you to places that you never could have even imagined existed. Here are some of my favorite quotes about reading and books.
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." -Neil Gaiman
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light." -Vera Nazarian
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book." -Josh Jameson
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." -Unknown
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense." -Harold Kushner.
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." -Maya Angelou
"Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood." -John Green
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." -Gilbert K. Chesterton
"In a good book the best is between the lines." -Swedish Proverb
"Keep reading books, but remember that a book is only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself." -Maxim Gorky
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." -Oscar Wilde
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." -Oscar Wilde
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." -Edward P. Morgan
"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you." -W. Somerset Maugham
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." -Henry David Thoreau
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself." -Angela Carter
"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over." -Gail Carson Levine
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." -Abraham Lincoln
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." -William Styron
"I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget." -William Lyon Phelps
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." -Joseph Brodsky
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you have lost a friend." -Paul Sweeney
