"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"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)

"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

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

"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)

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
— C.S. Lewis

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

"If you take a book with you on a journey,...an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
— C.S. Lewis

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
— Joseph Addison

"There are no children's books or adult books- there are only good books and bad books. Everyone should read the good ones."
— Stephenie Meyer

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

"The world was hers for the reading."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"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

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."
— Roald Dahl

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
— Oscar Wilde

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
— Anne Herbert

""t's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.""
— Stephen Chbosky

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
— Ursula K. LeGuin

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."
— Germaine Greer

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
— Rainer Maria Rilke