Quotes about reading

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)