"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better." — George R. R. Martin
"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." — Jane Austen
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." —Haruki Murakami
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think." —Harper Lee
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." —Mason Cooley
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries." —Rene Descartes
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." —C.S. Lewis
“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” – Kate DiCamillo
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” – Emma Thompson
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
“Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling