“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” - Madeleine L'Engle
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” - Toni Morrison
“There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” - J.K. Rowling
“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.” - Naomi Shihab Nye
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?” - Cornelia Funke
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin