“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com
“Book sales are important because that’s how writers try to make a living. But no one can or should buy every book. Libraries are vital.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“To me the best books are the ones that make me SO ANGRY because like what gives you the right to write this well, you know? Beautiful sentences make me want to throw books and that's how I know the writer is killing it. Like, this may be just me because I write, but when I read so called "good" writ…”— rachel syme, twitter.com
“Yes, books are spendy. BORROW IT FROM A LIBRARY. Libraries buy more copies if they're in demand. Ta-da! Paper trail, happy publishers.”— Maggie Stiefvater, twitter.com
“Kath perfectly depicts how we want all of our mornings to start — with a good book that encourages our hearts, and a warm cup of frothy coffee.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“I was attending the American Society of Animal Science meetings when the flood occurred. I first learned about it when I read about it on the front page of USA Today, a national newspaper. I grieved for the "dead" books, the same way most people grieve for a dead relative. The destruction of books u…”— Temple Grandin, en.wikiquote.org
“I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books are my paddles. I need my paddles!”— Justin Doble, Dustin Henderson, Gaten Matarazzo, imdb.com
“If you go to someone’s house and they don’t have any books don’t [sleep with] them.”— John Waters, goodreads.com
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org
“If you have read this whole thing, I hope you have plenty of time. You could have been reading the stories.”— John D. Macdonald, amazon.com
“Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.”— Lauren Conrad, amazon.com
“As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com
“I am the book you pick up but never buy. I am the book you open but never finish to read and that's okay. I write for myself anyway.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”— Scott Westerfeld, amazon.com
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.”— Alyxandra Harvey, amazon.com