“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructe…”— Donald Miller, amazon.com
“So often, in the past too, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”— Vincent Van Gogh, webexhibits.org
“You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them … And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”— David Foster Wallace, medium.com
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.”— Pete Hautman, goodreads.com
“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books.”— Diane Setterfield, amazon.com
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”— Peter Ackroyd, amazon.com
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Literature, rhetoric & criticism American literature in English English & Old English literatures German & related literatures French & related literatures Italian, Romanian, & related literatures Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures Latin & Italic literatures Classical & modern Greek literatur…”— Melvil Dewey, en.wikipedia.org
“Books aren’t an antiquated technology. Books are cutting-edge technology. In fact, books are the greatest virtual reality machines on the market. While virtual reality gear like Oculus engulfs the brain to present a different reality, books engage the brain and present a different reality through a…”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”— Scott Westerfeld, goodreads.com
“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”— Aravind Adiga, amazon.com
“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”— Ruta Sepetys, amazon.com