“She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future.”

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”

David Baldacci book The Camel Club

“Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

Ali Smith book Autumn

“I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

Lois Lowry (1937) American writer

“Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”

Gary Shteyngart (1972) american journalist and writer

“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.”

Jo Walton (1964) Welsh Canadian writer

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy