“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass
“The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read.” — Abraham Lincoln
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” — Roald Dahl
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” — Emilie Buchwald
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
“I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.” — Coolio
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelps
“You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me.” — Strickland Gillilan
“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” — Mark Twain
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” — Lemony Snicket
“A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.” — Chinese Proverb
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” — Paul Sweeney
“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” — May Ellen Chase
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor
“There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away” — Emily Dickinson
“When I say to a parent, “read to a child”, I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. ” — Mem Fox
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” — Dr. Seuss
“I’m wondering what to read next.” — Matilda, Roald Dahl
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” — Kate DiCamillo
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. ” — Neil Gaiman
“This morning I took out a comma, and this afternoon I put it back again.” — Oscar Wilde
“Writing is thinking on paper.” — William Zinsser
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