“I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.”

“Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

“What's your favorite book?
"The last one I read.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body.”

Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer

“Reading is the greatest thing ever, I've read alot that I know what very few people know… That the stars in the night sky are suns and that there are earth-like planets orbiting those stars, meaning there are other planets like earth out there… Reading is great”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”

Charles Nodier (1780–1844) French author

“I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

“I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.”

Angie Sage (1952) English author and illustrator

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet