My favourite reading quotes

I thought I would compile a list of what I think are the ten best reading quotes ever.

1. "There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway

2. "Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf.

3. "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies...The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin.

4. "Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King.

5. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss.

6. "I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." - J.K. Rowling.

7. "Reading is a passport to countless adventures." - Mary Pope Osborne.

8. "...I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years..." - Beatrix Potter.

9. "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero.

10. "You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." - Paul Sweeney.