1. "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen
2. "A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." - Neil Gaiman
3. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
4. "In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own." - Anna Quindlen
5. "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors; and the most patient of teachers." - Charles William Eliot
6. "There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
7. "A good book is an event in my life." - Stendhal
8. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
9. "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis
10. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Joseph Addison
11. "Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King
12. "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - René Descartes
13. "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." - Chinese Proverb
14. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami
15. "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you." - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
16. "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
17. "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." - Elizabeth Hardwick
18. "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." - Carl Sagan
19. "A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." - Henry David Thoreau
20. "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations." - Henry David Thoreau