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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“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 Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

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

“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Reading... a vacation for the mind....”
― Dave Barry

“I even love the smell of books.”
― Adriana Trigiani

“It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
― S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
― Holbrook Jackson

“Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.”
― Jincy Willett, The Writing Class

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
― William Godwin

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

“Go to hell, I'm reading!”
― Archie Goodwin