“I spotted Danny lounging in his hammock, one hand holding a book open on his stomach and, in the other hand, a bottle of beer, and I wondered if he might have the right idea about how to live after all.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”— Bohumil Hrabal, amazon.com
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“There isn't an ongoing cultural debate about the merits of 'Moby Dick'. It's not merely an epic novel, it's a transformative literary innovation that helps define how novels are supposed to be viewed. Any conversation about the cliched topic of the 'Great American Novel' begins with this book. The w…”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“That, by way of a book, we have the ability to transcend what is immediate, what is merely personal, and to enter a consciousness not known to us, in some cases distinctly alien.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin; another’s voice; another’s soul.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“There are pleasures in reading so startling, so intense, they shade into pain. The realization that one’s life has been irrevocably altered by . . . can it be mere words? Print on a page? The most life-rending discoveries involve what has in fact never been thought, never given form, until another’s…”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“If I was on a desert island and could only have one book, I'd choose "Atlas Shrugged." Because that's 1,088 pieces of toilet paper.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“I'm on the Today Show tomorrow offering up my doable New Years resolutions! Just kidding, F resolutions, I'm talking bout books I love!”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“'I'm not a stranger,' I said, and pointed to his book. 'I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.'”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Early holiday shoppers: May I suggest my autobiography? It's entertaining, educational, and easy to wrap!”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com