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“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
― Ezra Pound

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

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

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book...”
― Nickolai Gogol

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars