“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
  – A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)
 
 
 “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
  – Abraham Lincoln
 
 “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
  – Abraham Lincoln
 
 “To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
 - Andre Gide
 

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
 - Angela Carter
 

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”
 - Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
 

 “If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
 - Anonymous teacher
 

 “The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
 - Anthony Trollope
 
 “All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
 - Arthur Christopher Benson
 
 “Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
 - Arthur Helps
 
 
 “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
  – Austin Phelps

 
 “The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
 - Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964
 
 “He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.”
 - Barrow
 
 “Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
 - Bell Hooks
 

 “We read to know we are not alone.”
 - C.S. Lewis
 
 
 “The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.”
  – Charles Clark, “Building Fluency: Do It Right and Do It Well!” (1999)
 
 
 “You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
  – Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
 
 
 
 “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”
 - Christopher Morley

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