“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, amazon.com
“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your…”— Karen Marie Moning, amazon.com
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has co…”— Alan Bennett, amazon.com
“'Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?' Mo had said. 'As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. And then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly you…”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”— John Green, amazon.com
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com