“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.”— Theodore Roosevelt, nps.gov
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.”— George Lichtenberg, amazon.com
“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The lack of video, the lack of audio, the lack of ways to change the forking outcomes of plot is a feature of literature, not a bug. And, as it turns out, books are interactive. They’re recipes for the imagination. Conversely, video is restrictive—it tells you what things look like, what they sound…”— Richard Nash, amazon.com
“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.”— Chuck Palahniuk, imdb.com
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, Professor Faber, amazon.com