25 REASONS WHY YOU’RE ADDICTED TO BOOKS

25 REASONS WHY YOU’RE ADDICTED TO BOOKS

#1  “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” —Joseph Addison

#2  “The world was hers for the reading.” —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

#3 “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read…” —Keri Hulme, The Bone People

#4 “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.” — Franz Kafka

#5 “I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” —J.K. Rowling

#6 “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” —Groucho Marx

#7 “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

#8 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” —James Baldwin

#9 “It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.” —John Waters

#10  “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

#11 “Reading can be dangerous.” —Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

#12 “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

#13 “Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.” —R.L. Stine

#14 “I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.” —Margaret Atwood

#15 “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” —Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

#16 “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

#17 “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” —Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

#18 “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” —John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

#19 “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” —C.S. Lewis

#20 “I have consistently loved books that I’ve read when I’ve been sick in bed.” —Tracy Chevalier

#21 “’A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,’ said Jojen. ‘The man who never reads lives only one.’” —George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

#22 “We read to know that we are not alone.” —William Nicholson, Shadowlands

#23 “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” —Mark Twain

#24 “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” —Frederick Douglass

#25 “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” —Anna Quindlen How Reading Changed My Life