"Waiting
rooms were made for books--of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's
favorite, the john." -
Stephen King
"A
great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."
- William Styron
"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
- Steven Wright
"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." - Sir Arthur
"Many time the reading of a
book has made the future of a man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Joseph Addison
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The reading of all good books is like conversation
with the finest men of the past centuries." - Rene Descartes
"Know that when I stumble across someone who has not only read but loved one of these books as much as I have,
I've probably made a friend for life." - Nancy Pearl
