“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. 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
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”— Eva Rice, amazon.com
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”— Tove Jansson, moomin.com
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”— Groucho Marx, amazon.com
“This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went off to Egypt and told you that they weren’t a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life.”— Danielle Steel, amazon.com
“This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.com
“Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com