“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?”
“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”
“Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.”
“In a very real sense, people who have read good literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”