“I think a lot of people still fantasize about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.”— Sophie Kinsella, independent.co.uk
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”— Thomas Mann, goodreads.com
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“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, bartleby.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Put your hands on my knees, she said, and think of me as a book you’ve been dying to read.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”— John Gardner, amazon.com
“Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Of many books, one feels, 'it could have been truly good, if the author's appetite for suffering had been greater.'”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait 2 years to know whether or not it was funny.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“Writing fills a gap: the best books are largely the work of people who couldn’t find anyone in the vicinity they could talk to.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”— Gustave Flaubert, books.google.com.ph
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likable characters with whom you can have some simple identification. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make your brain go all like ahbd…”— John Green, youtube.com
“Reading books forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect, connect one historical moment with another. Reading books provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events, of the world — of life itself.”— Peggy Noonan, catholic.edu