“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don’t read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children’s rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent’s rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into… Read more

Another rockstar quote about books and reading… I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you’re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers… Read more

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. – Marilyn Manson, American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, painter, multimedia artist Read more

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.” – Alberto Manguel, Argentine-born writer and essayist Read more

Now, here’s the mark of a very limited mind: I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland. – Vladimir Putin, president of Russia Read more

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. –… Read more

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – Virginia Woolf, British modernist author Read more

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist Read more

This explains a lot, including why I would never want his autograph. What an idiot. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. – Kanye West Read more

“Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from… Read more