1. Books to the reading child, are so much more than books – they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. Esther Meynell Jonathan Swift

2. If you want children to read well, they must read a lot. If you want children to read a lot, they must read well.” Marilyn Adams Jonathan Swift

3. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese proverb

4. If you don't have the time to READ, you don't have the time or the tools to WRITE. Stephen King

5. READING is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer J. Adler

6. A library is a hospital for the mind. Anonymous

7. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison Jonathan Swift

8. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, company, by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Henry Ward Beecher Jonathan Swift

9. The man who DOESN’T read good books has no advantage over the man who CAN’T read them. Mark Twain Jonathan Swift

10. A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. Daniel J. Boorstin Mark Twain

11. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Jonathan Swift

12. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. Emilie Buchwald

13. The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. Samuel Butler

14. Beware of the man of one book. Anonymous

15. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury

16. Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx

17. I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. William Phelps

18. Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bert Williams

19. A library should be like a pair of open arms. Roger Rosenblatt

20. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. W. Fusselman

21. Books – the children of the brain. Jonathan Swift

22. It is with books as with men--a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. Voltaire

23. Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. Steven Spielberg Voltaire

24. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Farquhar Tupper

25. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Jessamyn West

26. If you can read this, thank a teacher. Anonymous Teacher

27. What is reading, but silent conversation. Walter Savage Landor t

28. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go Dr. Seuss

29. A library is thought in cold storage. Herbert Samuel

30. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Richard McKenna Jessamyn West

31. Books – the children of the brain. Jonathan Swift

32. I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and... Groucho Marx

33. The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Malcolm X

34. No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius

35. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested. Sir Francis Bacon

36. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass

37. There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. Jacqueline Kennedy

38. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky

39. "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

40. We read to know that we are not alone. C.S. Lewis

41. You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. Lewis

42. There is no friend as loyal as a good book. Ernest Hemingway