“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 W. Eliot

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
— Kofi Annan

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

“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
— Vera Nazarian

“We read to know we are not alone.”
— C.S. Lewis

“When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again”
— Rumer Godden

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
— William Godwin

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
— Neal Gaiman

“There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemmingway

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
— Oscar Wilde

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
— Dr. Seuss

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
— Mason Cooley

“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and build castles of possibilities.”
— Ben Okri

“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
— Mary McLeod Bethune

“I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.”
— Orhan Pamuk

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
— J. K. Rowling

“Books were my pass to personal freedom.”
— Oprah Winfrey