“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” Harper Lee
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” Mason Cooley
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” Julian Barnes
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” Madeleine L’Engle
“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” J.K. Rowling
“The stories we love best live in us forever.” J.K. Rowling
“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” Cassandra Clare
What an astonishing thing a book is…one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” Carl Sagan
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” Anna Quindlen
“Words, are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” J.K. Rowling
“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.” Neil Gaiman
“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” Thomas Wharton
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” Plato
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass
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Saurabh Hooda says
Great quotes, Amy.
At Lenro (http://lenro.co), we believe that books are magical and magic happens when book readers discuss books with each other. That’s why we are connecting neighborhood books readers across the world 🙂