“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.”— Alyxandra Harvey, amazon.com
“When life wears us down, great fiction gives us back our human shape.”— Kevin Hartnett, themillions.com
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”— Joanne Harris, joannechocolat.tumblr.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”— Carol Shields, amazon.com
“You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them … And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”— David Foster Wallace, medium.com
“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”— Kate Atkinson, amazon.com
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”— Aravind Adiga, amazon.com
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”— E. L. Doctorow, en.wikiquote.org
“I’ve always loved books. I’m passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good. They…can be carried around and opened at will. They don’t change. They are what they are and nothing else.”— Sue Townsend, amazon.com
“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com