The best moments in reading are when you come across something-a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things-which you had thought unique and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. –Alan Bennett
A great book should leave you…
slightly exhausted at the end.
You live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. –Paul Auster
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. –Anna Quindlen
Through the use of books, I had the whole world at my feet, could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything. –Benjamin Carson
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future. –Jim Bishop
