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  • #1
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #2
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #4
    Robertson Davies
    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    Robertson Davies

  • #5
    Emily Dickinson
    “There is no Frigate like a Book
    To take us Lands away
    Nor any Coursers like a Page
    Of prancing Poetry –
    This Traverse may the poorest take
    Without oppress of Toll –
    How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears a Human soul.”
    Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

  • #6
    Victor Hugo
    “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #7
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

  • #10
    T.S. Eliot
    “I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #11
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “In reading we must become creators.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #12
    Tracy Chevalier
    “It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”
    Tracy Chevalier

  • #13
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #15
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #16
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #17
    Kathleen Thompson Norris
    “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
    Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #19
    Voltaire
    “It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
    Voltaire

  • #20
    Jane Hamilton
    “She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”
    Jane Hamilton

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Jonathan Swift
    “Books, the children of the brain.”
    Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings

  • #23
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #24
    Richard Paul Evans
    “Books are the most tolerant of friends.”
    Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

  • #25
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #26
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #27
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #28
    Robert Jordan
    “The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
    Yves Saint Laurent



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