“I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”— Markus Zusak, goodreads.com
“And I’m very much in favour of reading. These are very intense experiences of the mind which many of the new generation do not have any more. They read little snippets on Twitter and see little snippets of films on YouTube. And they are pretty much lost, because they do not read, and they are not co…”— Werner Herzog, telegraph.co.uk
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“You don’t have to change the world or find your one true purpose to lead a meaningful life. A good life is a life of goodness — and that’s something anyone can aspire to, no matter their dreams or circumstances.”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. They won’t have obituaries that run in newspapers like this one. But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives…”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“I feel the carousel starting slowly And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books, Photographs of friends, the window and the trees, Merging into one neutral band that surrounds Me on all sides, everywhere I look. And I cannot explain the action of leveling, Why it should all boil down to one Uni…”— John Ashbery, nytimes.com
“Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.”— Jeremy Collier, goodreads.com
“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.”— Voltaire, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“The first time, he had wondered why she liked books so much, and if it had anything to do with why he liked spaceships. Because they could take you somewhere far, far away.”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.com
“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”— Laura Hillenbrand, amazon.com
“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.”— Madeleine Albright, query.nytimes.com