1Alberto Manguel
Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesMaybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
2Annie Dillard
Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesShe read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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3Betty Smith
Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesThe world was hers for the reading.
4Jhumpa Lahiri
Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesThat's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
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5Malala Yousafzai
Betsy FarrellLet us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
6Mark Haddon
Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesReading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
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7Paul Sweeney
Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesYou know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
8Beverly Cleary
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesIf you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.
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9Celeste Ng
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesThe story is truly finished — and meaning is made — not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.
10Colson Whitehead
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesWhat isn't said is as important as what is said.
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11Donna Tartt
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesCharacter, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
12Dr. Seuss
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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13Emily Ruskovich
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesPoetic language is a way of giving the sense of an answer, just a sense of one, that the story itself is unable to provide.
14George R.R. Martin
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
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15Margaret Atwood
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesIn the end, we’ll all become stories.
16Anna Quindlen
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesBooks are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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17Neil Gaiman
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesA book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
18J.K. Rowling
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesI do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
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19Stephen King
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesBooks are a uniquely portable magic.
20Mason Cooley
Design by Betsy Farrell//Getty ImagesReading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
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