E. M. Forster

“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed… →

Honoré de Balzac

“Reading brings us unknown friends.” →

H.P. Lovecraft

“I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” →

Ian McEwan

“I wonder how many people owe their existence to their parents’ love of books.” →

Ian McEwan

“Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.” →

Virginia Woolf

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no r… →

Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?” →

Aldous Huxley

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced” →

Mark Twain

“Don’t explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.” →