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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss · I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
Cassandra Clare · City of Bones, 2007
“If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”
J.K. Rowling
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison · The Tatler, 1710
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
Harry S. Truman
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka · Letter to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin · A Dance with Dragons, 2011
