Book-lovers Quote by George Saunders

“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper…

— Duncan Smith

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski

“The Internet is clamoring for me to admire and interact with the thoughts of my friends and readers around the world, but the payment…

— Tsh Oxenreider

“One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by…

— Shirley Jackson

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

— Guy Kawasaki

“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.”

— Donalyn Miller

“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what…

— Rick Gekoski

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

“Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do it in…

— Sara Nelson

“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension.…

— Nina Bernstein

“reading is boring but be careful on the internet”

— Hillary English