{"quotes":[{"text":"To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["history","intriguing","life","readers","secrets"],"id":1501,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are.","author":"Niall Williams","tags":["books","human-beings","literature","readers","writers","writing"],"id":1786,"author_id":"Niall+Williams"},{"text":"Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.","author":"Suzy Davies","tags":["books","magic","perception","readers","reading","the-self","time-travel-other-worlds","transformation"],"id":2299,"author_id":"Suzy+Davies"},{"text":"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be prod.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["books","ideas","impact","readers","reading"],"id":3711,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.","author":"Lloyd Alexander","tags":["books","life","readers","reading","writers"],"id":7401,"author_id":"Lloyd+Alexander"},{"text":"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["books","kids","readers","reading"],"id":12437,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["inspirational","readers","writers"],"id":13850,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.","author":"Aman Jassal","tags":["book","book-lover","book-lovers","book","books","books-reading","reader","readers"],"id":15096,"author_id":"Aman+Jassal"},{"text":"Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.","author":"Harry Truman","tags":["education","leaders","life-long-learning","readers"],"id":15344,"author_id":"Harry+Truman"},{"text":"Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.","author":"Lang Leav","tags":["readers","writing"],"id":17601,"author_id":"Lang+Leav"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":225,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}