#the reading life

“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