National Book Lovers Day 2022: 10 Quotes About Reading For Bibliophiles

National Book Lovers Day is marked annually on Aug. 9 to celebrate those who love to read.

It is aimed at encouraging people to find a good book and settle down in a nice reading spot. It is unclear how or when this day was first marked.

Here are 10 quotes about books and reading from Celadon Books.

1. "Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them," — Lloyd Alexander

2. "Books are the plane and the train and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home." — Anna Quindlen, author

3. "There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all," — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Former first lady of U.S

4. "Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him," — Maya Angelou, poet

5. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking," — Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer.

6. "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge." — George R.R. Martin, author

7. "Books are a uniquely portable magic." — Stephen King, author

8. "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it," — Edward P. Morgan, journalist

9. "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, author

10. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go," — Dr. Seuss, author