World Book Day 2017
A woman lies in the grass while reading a book, at Columbia University in New York, April 14, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

April 23 every year marks World Book Day. This year the event falls Sunday.

Books have been a source of pleasure for several people and many will agree that reading is a good way to de-stress yourself. Reading transports you to a different world and a single book can make you cry, laugh and amused.

However, tiring work life has left little time for people to lay back and read a good book. But, you can always motivate yourself to pick a nice read.

Check out some quotes gathered from Brainy Quote, FlavorWire and Good Reads to motivate you to start reading.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” — Jane Austen

“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” — Mark Haddon

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx

“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

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“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

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

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Ray Bradbury

“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” — L.M. Montgomery

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ― Mark Twain

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

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ― Stephen King

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” ― J.K. Rowling

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