Books are where words live. I read to discover if…

“Books are where words live. I read to see who's home.”

— Tom Van Dyke

“Live to read, read to learn.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker…

— Penelope Lively

“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and…

— Benjamin Percy

“Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or schools of…

— Kelly G. Wilson

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“Read to live, not live to read”

— Edward Bulwer

“Read more than you write, live more than you read”

— Junot Díaz

“Live to read. Read for life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

She would live now, not read.

— Alice Munro

Words to live by

— Anonymous

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

— Oprah Winfrey

“Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and place them…

— Virginia Woolf