Addicted to Reading: Reasons 20 - 26

 

20.       “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” —Anna Quindlen How Reading Changed My Life

21.       “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” — Roberto Bolaño, 2666

22.       “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx

23.       “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” —Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

24.       “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

25.       “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.       “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” —Frederick Douglass