608 – “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

–Charles W Eliot

604 – “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

–William Somerset Maugham

594 – “Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.”

–Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo [Attributed]

564 – “Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by time I read them.”

–Arnold Lobel

540 – “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

–Mason Cooley [Attributed]

471 – “Librarians are the generals in the War on Ignorance.”

–anonymous

460 – “I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”

–Tahereh Mafi [Attributed]

449 – “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

–Jojen Reed in George R R Martin’s A Dance with Dragons

441 – “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

–Hector (played by Richard Griffiths) in The History Boys (2006)

412 – “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

–Neil Gaiman