"The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Joseph Addison

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"life, seek the company of a friendly book… from the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way."

Gordon B. Hinckley

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

Charles William Eliot

"I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book."

J.K. Rowling

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

Annie Dillard

"Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to her heart."

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Theodor Seuss Geisel

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. "

Mortimer J. Adler

"Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart."

Oprah Winfrey

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

Alan Bennet