“Books are also important in real-life prisons; you can donate books requested by inmates by looking at their wish lists.”— Christine Ro, bookriot.com
“It’s time to head to the bookstore and check out some of the awesome books below—all of which feature a BFF relationship as layered, fun, and genuine as Molly and Amy’s in Booksmart.”— Jessica Macleish, teenvogue.com
“Female friendship is tricky. Friends arrive. Friends fade. Friends get jealous! Friends fight!”— Liana Satenstein, vogue.com
“All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I'm gonna throw a box of books and my beloved guitar into the back of my truck and try my luck in California.”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“Steel writes in her home office. Most of the time, that's San Francisco, but sometimes she's at her house in Paris. Wherever she is, she writes on her 1946 Olympia standard typewriter, which she's nicknamed Olly.”— Samantha Leach, glamour.com
“It was not a competition, but there was a push. I felt him pushing me to be more of the person I used to be and more of who I wanted to be.”— Karla Marie-Rose Derus, nytimes.com
“Swedish artist Hilma af Klint passed away in 1944 at the age of 81 and left behind more than 1,000 works that she had kept private. She believed that the world “was not ready for her art,” so she asked that the pieces remain unseen for another two decades.”— Sara Barnes , mymodernmet.com
“Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.”— KEVIN DICKINSON, bigthink.com
“Money can’t buy happiness? I hate that saying. Money helps a lot of people. To pretend that it doesn’t is just woo-woo bullshit. We live in a capitalist society. Money improves people’s circumstances. It just does.”— Jessica Knoll, thecut.com
“Here are six books to help take you, your art and your business to the next level.”— The H Hub, thehhub.com
“Here, on the internet, is a nowhere space, a shallow time. It is a flat and impenetrable surface. But with a book, we dive in; we are sucked in; we are immersed, body and soul.”— Mairead Small Staid, theparisreview.org
“[T]he power of art—and many books are, still, art, not entertainment—lies in the way it turns us inward and outward, all at once. The communion we seek, scanning titles or turning pages, is not with others—not even the others, living or long dead, who wrote the words we read—but with ourselves. Our…”— Mairead Small Staid, theparisreview.org
“My favorite kinds of books to read are the ones that do more than just tell you a story. They do more than just set the scene or paint the picture.”— Taylor Swift, elle.com
“What does C.S. Lewis keep at the back of his wardrobe? Narnia business!”— David Stuart Davies, twitter.com
“Black History Month is a great time to highlight the work of black authors in the U.S. (and beyond), but of course, these literary works are worth honoring year round.”— Caroline Bologna, huffpost.com
“The journal includes a list for every week of the year and helps you discover new ways to connect with each other.”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“I know it's not cool to say and it's not big and flashy but I love books, and I want my life to be about what I actually love.”— April Blair, Joe Goldberg, Penn Badgley, imdb.com
“That’s sad. People buying books because of what’s popular, and not because they wanna be moved or changed in some way.”— Greg Berlanti, Sera Gamble, Guinevere Beck, Elizabeth Lail, imdb.com
“Now that 2018 is rolling to a close (good riddance) it's time to reflect on everything that happened this year.”— Marie Claire, marieclaire.com