Famous Authors – 15 Most Powerful Thoughts On Reading

The greats say it far better than I do: Reading is all things. 🙂

STEPHEN KING
on books as entertainment!
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
Ernest Hemingway
on intimacy with a written word.
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
3. Margaret Atwood
on learning how to read.

“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.”
4. Harper Lee
on necessity of reading.
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
5. William Faulkner
on what we should read and why!
“Read, read, read. Read everything…