A few of my favorites:
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." — C.S. Lewis
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one." — George R.R. Martin
"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." — J.K. Rowling
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." — Mark Twain
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“If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em”. – John Waters
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up”
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone”
-Tyrion Lannister to Jon Snow
George R. R. Martin
What are your sources for these quotes?
The Twain one is fake, as 99 percent of Twain quotes that circulate on Facebook tend to be: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/11/cannot-read/
I can’t immediately find any original sources for the purported Lewis or Rowling quotes — mostly just Etsy shops selling mugs with those quotes on them — but would be curious where they actually said them if they did.
Jung said “who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” It’s one of my favorite quotes. Reading forces you to look inside, there is no greater activity (apart from meditation) that pushes you to go within like reading.
“Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you’ll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you’ll turn into a fool yourself.” Victor Pelevin
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend: inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
“Everything I learned, I learned in Beaconsfield Public Library. School taught me how to spit.” – Terry Pratchett.
“Listening to a book is not the same as reading one.”