William Styron: You live several lives while reading.
Bradbury: “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Fran Lebowitz: “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
Joseph Brodsky: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Willliam Nicholson: We read to know that we are not alone.
George R.R,Martin: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Stephen King: “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Cassandra Clare: “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
Jules Verne:“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
Emerson: “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Jane Smiley: “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
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