Aliens Quote by Sammy Hagar

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

“This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good,…

— Jacob Bacharach

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

— Neil Gaiman

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition…

— Deborah Eisenberg

“[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for…

— Manguel Alberto

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

I was reading some Raymond Carver. I really liked how he did that 'slice of life' thing. Because I'm not much of a reader…

— Limmy

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you,…

— Alberto Manguel

“She was a bookish person who'd never been exposed to books: she was gifted with astute powers of observation, but her thoughts and feelings…

— Kate Morton

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett