Quotes About Reading - Tumblr Posts

"Stories can cross the barriers of time, past, present and future, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and through others, real and imagined."

— Andrew Stanton, PIXAR screenwriter, from his TED talk: The Clues to a Great Story

Leo Tolstoy sure does know what happiness is!

“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”

-Leo Tolstoy

"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."

– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing

From Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Alberto Manguel, Canadian translator and essayist