Authors get quoted all the time. Here are just a few quotes from some famous authors:

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
― Mark Twain

“We read to know we’re not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Francis Bacon

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel