#ok

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. ↗

— John Waters

#reading #commitment

This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'. ↗

— John Stamos

#baby #broke #family #found #god

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. ↗

— John Green

#feeling

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#reading #feeling

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#reading #career

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers by day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes to make them possible. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#dreams

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

#magic #magic-books #read

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#books #literature #reading #writing #read

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#readers #reading #reading-books #dance