Quotes

I come across so many truly inspiring book-related quotes in my never-ending search for new and exciting reading material.  Rather than keep them to myself, I thought it might be appropriate to share some of my favorites here (this is, after all, a book blog!).  Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!  Do you have some favorite quotes you'd like to share with your fellow bookworms?

"There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading.  There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books."  ~James Patterson

"Books are many things:  lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home."  ~Glenda Millard

"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

"Fiction gives us empathy:  it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes.  Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."  ~Neil Gaiman from Farenheight 451 by Ray Bradbury

"Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?" ~Jane Austen

"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

"When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time -- not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read.  I'm actually walking around in a bit of a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism."  ~Colin Firth

"I do not read because I have renounced life; I read because one life is just not enough for me."  ~Abbas Al-Akkad