1.“That is part of the beauty of all literature . You light upon that your longings are universal hungriness , that you ’re not unfrequented and isolated from anyone . You belong . ”—F. Scott Fitzgeraldto Sheilah Graham
2.“My granddaddy always says that ’s what account book are for … to trip without prompt an column inch . ”—Jhumpa Lahiri , The Namesake
2.“If a book is well written I always find it too short . ”—Jane Austen , Catharine , or the arbour
4.“My life is a reading list . ”—John Irving , A Prayer for Owen Meany
5.“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading , you could only think what everyone else is thinking . ”—Haruki Murakami , Norwegian Wood
6.“‘A referee lives a thousand lives before he dies , ’ sound out Jojen . ‘ The human who never reads life only one . ’”—George R.R. Martin , A Dance With Dragons
7.“From that time on , the Earth was hers for the recital . She would never be lone again , never miss the deficiency of intimate champion . Books became her friend and there was one for every mood . ”—Betty Smith , A Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8.“One glance at [ a book ] and you hear the voice of another person — perhaps someone deadened for thousands of class . Across the millennia , the author is speaking , clearly and silently , inside your head , instantly to you … To read is to navigate through clock time . ”—Carl Sagan , Cosmos
9.“Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chew and stomach ; that is , some playscript are to be interpret only in function ; others to be learn , but not badly ; and some few to be register wholly , and with diligence and tending . ”—Francis Bacon , Essays
10.“Bread and books : food for the body and food for the person — what could be more worthy of our regard , and even love?”—Salman Rushdie , Imaginary Homelands
11.“[Reading ] is the lonesome means by which we steal , involuntarily , often unable to help , into another ’s cutis ; another ’s interpreter ; another ’s psyche . ”—Joyce Carol Oates , “ Literature as Pleasure , Pleasure as Literature ”
12.“Books are a manakin of political action . playscript are cognition . book are reflexion . Books shift your mind . ”—Toni Morrison , interview , Word Magazine
