“Slowly, like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Seriously, though, not buying a book until the series is complete because you're mad at some authors for not finishing theirs is a great way to ensure there won't be any more books.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.”— Horace Mann, sites.google.com
“If you read a book, rate it. If you loved a book, share it. If you care about a book, talk it up. I cannot tell you the strength of word-of-mouth. It is vast. You have power.”— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com
“Books and writers give such immense and unexpected comfort, it really is something else. Grateful, as ever.”— Lisa Lucas, twitter.com
“My father loved The Old Man and the Sea, so I tried to love it. It left me unmoved. Mostly, I kept hoping the fish would get away.”— GQ, gq.com
“If you pirate a book and enjoy it, you’ll want more from that author, right? But you stole it, so the writer didn’t get paid. The publisher didn’t see sales. No more books from that author. You hurt writer, publisher, AND readers. Get it from a library if you can’t afford to buy.”— Alan Baxter, twitter.com
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“These writers, and their works, inspire us to keep pushing towards a truly intersectional, inclusive feminism that can truly topple the patriarchy once and for all.”— The Rumpus, therumpus.net
“One of the great epiphanies of my lifetime was realizing that I disliked so many female characters because they were created by men who didn’t like women.”— Rainbow Rowell, twitter.com
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”— Charles Darwin, amazon.com
“Writers aren’t (always) creating Easter egg hunts for readers, hiding references for them to find. But generally, you can assume that if you DO find something, it was put there on purpose for you.”— Celeste Ng, twitter.com
“Don’t label yourself a bad reader. You have a normal condition called “brain chatter” and I have found the best way to settle my brain down and pay attention to the text is to simply acknowledge when my brain is being extra noisy and has lots to “say” about what it’s reading. I literally tell my bra…”— Stephanie St.Claire, stephaniestclaire.com