These quotes would make you become a book lover

These 12 quotes by Anna Quindlen would change your perception about books and give you an insight to the world of book lovers.

1. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

2. Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…

3. In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

4. Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion.

5. Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort…reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung…”

6. The joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

7. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.

8. There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.

9. Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.

10. Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

11. Reading has as many functions as the human body, and… not all of them are cerebral.

12. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.

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Excerpt from How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

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