Once I began to read, I began to exist. – Walter Dean Meyers, American author of books for children and young adults Read more

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die—” – Will Herondale, from the Shadowhunter series by Cassandra Clare Read more

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the books that made me love reading, A Wrinkle in Time Read more

“There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading and kids who are reading the wrong books.” – James Patterson Read more

“I stepped into that bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón Read more

This explains a lot… “Write drunk. Edit sober.” – Ernest Hemingway Read more

“I like liking things. It’s just that there are more books to like than anyone can ever read. Granted, that’s an uptown problem, but a problem nonetheless.” – Sarah Vowell, and isn’t that a great name for a writer? Read more

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was planning to read.” – Lemony Snicket Read more

I came across this on Pinterest. It is unattributed, but that makes it no less a fact: “There are certain fiction character’s deaths you will never recover from. Ever.” – Pinterest Read more

Ahhh, Neil shows up here a lot on Quotables. This, I am in total agreement with. When someone readily has a favorite book, I often suspect that they have read only one. “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you would most like not to lose.” – Neil Gaiman Read more