“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

“The heart is the only book worth reading.”

Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

Russell Banks (1940) American author

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”

Rikki Ducornet (1949) American writer and artist

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

Thorne Smith (1892–1934) an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

“None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times