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“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

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“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

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“Metaphor is the medicine.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“For this woman,” Arkadian Porphyrich continues, seeing how intently you are drinking in his words, “reading means stripping herself of every forgone conclusion, to be ready to catch a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the conventions of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in---and that is herself.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.”
― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

“Pois, uma vez que a doença da leitura se instale no organismo, enfraquece-o, tornando-o presa fácil desse outro flagelo que habita no tinteiro e apodrece na pena. O infeliz dedica-se a escrever.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando