“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

“One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read.”

Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

R.L. Stine (1943) American writer and producer

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

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower