"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." 

"Think before you speak. Read before ."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."

"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real."