Ellie Crabb

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go" - Dr Seuss. 

"We read to know that we are not alone" - C.S Lewis

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” - Anne Rice

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.” - Christopher Morley

"The greatest gift is passion for reading" - Elizabeth Hardwick 

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free" - Frederick Douglass

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Markz 

“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Hazel Rochman

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.” - John Berger

"There are worse crimes the burning books, one of them is not reading them" - Joseph Brodsky
 
 “A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.” - Lyndon Baines Johnson

 “Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” - Marcel Proust 

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader." - Margaret Fuller

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.”  - Mark Twain

 “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” - Martin Tupper

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere" - Mary Shmich

"Reading gives you a place to go when you have to stay where you are" - Mason Cooley