“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
--George R.R. Martin

"I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly... the reading habit had got me securely."
--H.G. Wells