“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use—my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“'And what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I’m going to be honest with you, I’m not a reader. I don’t like to read long books. I like to read news. So I couldn’t tell you that there was a book that I read that changed my life. More so, I love to read news and I love to read commentary and I love to watch TV. I love to watch news. I’m a watch…”— Tomi Lahren, dailycaller.com
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”— Joshua Slocum, amazon.com
“We can thank legendary filmmaker, John Waters, for this important point: ‘If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't f*ck them.’ What does that mean exactly? People who love to read yearn to explore other worlds, get lost in other dimensions, continue to learn, and grow as human b…”— Amanda Chatel, bustle.com
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell, orwell.ru