“To #read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” — Edmund Burke #books #reading

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” — Harold Bloom #MondayWisdom #books #Reading

“Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise, it'll be too dark to read.” — Anonymous #Reading #books

“One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.” — Ishmael Reed #Reading #BookTwitter #mondaythoughts

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ― Dr. Seuss #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

'You can't buy #happiness, but you can buy #books and that's kind of the same thing.' — Anonymous #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from #reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” ― Annie Proulx #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” — Anna Quindlen (.@theAnnaQuindlen) #booklovers #readingcommunity #novels #booknerd

#Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone. — Kiera Cass (.@kieracass)

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.” — Vladimir Nabokov #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” — Maya Angelou #quoteoftheday #bookslover

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. — Gary Paulsen #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates (.@JoyceCarolOates) #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins (.@henryrollins) #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.” — Mary B. W. Tabor #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

A writer is a world trapped in a person.” — Victor Hugo #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” — Peter Handke (.@PeterHandke_) #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile #quoteoftheday

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” — Thomas Wharton #bookslover #readingcommunity #readingtime #bibliophile