Alan Bennett

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by so… →

Maya Angelou

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”  →

Jamaica Kincaid

“I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn’t hel… →

James Baldwin

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the v… →

Ray Bradbury

“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression a… →

Kurt Vonnegut

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this countr… →

Kurt Vonnegut

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own mind… →

George R.R. Martin

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” →

C.S. Lewis

“Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.” →