"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." 
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons


"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book." 
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars


"We read to know we're not alone."
- William Nicholson, Shadowlands


"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
-Margaret Atwood