It’s always special when you find out that a writer you love loves books as much as you.

So to celebrate World Book Day, which falls on 23 April here in Spain, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favourite quotes about books and reading from some of our favourite women writers.

 “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book. When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library”.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“That’s the thing about books – They let you travel without moving your feet”.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“The world was hers for the reading”.

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read- unless it be reading while you eat”.

E. Nesbit, The Magic World

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing”.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading”.

Virginia Woolf,The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting”.

Mary Wortley Montagu, The Best Letters of Mary Wortley Montagu

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read”.

Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“My library is an archive of longings”.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away".

Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book”.

J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter Book series