Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed my Life

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. - James Russell Lowell

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

―Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed my Life

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner. Jr

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

- Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who WAnt to Write Them

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.  ~Chinese Saying

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. -CS Lewis

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. - Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. - Thomas Carlyle

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672-1719)

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art or writing. - Clarence Day (American Humorist, Essayist, Biographer and Writer, 1874-1935)

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. - James Bryce

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. - Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

- Keith Donohue

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Chinese Proverb

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

- Ezra Pound