''My top ten favorite quotes about reading''

1)

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen

2)

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

3)

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” 
 J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye 

4)There is no friend as loyal as a book.  — Ernest Hemingway

5)Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” 

 Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

6)

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” 
 Paul Auster, 

7) I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” 
Orhan Pamuk

8)When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus

9)For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.” 

Audrey Hepburn 

10)

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami