“I spend a lot of time reading, but I do not consider myself a big reader. On my shelves I count as many books read as unfinished.” ― Édouard Levé

“When I read, I count the moments, not the pages.” ― Sara Benincasa,

“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Reading my book is like chatting with an old friend over a few dozen beers.” ― M'Lord Chook

“Every story has a story. And always more important than a story itself, is the reason behind why it was told.” ― Sean Norris,

“Do whatever you have to, to keep yourself reading.” ― Richard Restak

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words stated not just to mean something, but everything.” ― Markus Zusak

“The best stories never end - they keep on going, inside you.” ― Ursula Dubosarsky

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“When I was a child, going to the library was magical.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner,

“You only have so much time to read. You could read all day, every day, and you would never come close to reading all the books and articles that are out there, so make sure what you read is worthwhile.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner,

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." – Stephen King

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.” – George R. R. Martin

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” – Neil Gaiman

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.” – Henry David Thoreau

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." – Ray Bradbury,

“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.” – John Green

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