“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin (American novelist and short-story writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones)
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Harper Lee (American novelist is best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird)
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis (British writer and lay theologian)
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx (American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star)
“Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
Mark Twain (American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.)
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
Roald Dahl (Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot.)
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss (American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker)
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King (American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels)
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
Benjamin Franklin (Founding Fathers of the United States. A polymath, he was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat)
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
Walt Disney ( American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer.)
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
Jules Verne (French novelist, poet, and playwright)