“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you…”— Madeleine L’Engle, goodreads.com
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget…I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really d…”— David Foster Wallace, goodreads.com
“So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out…or read. Those late hours when the world is completely still, when the only sound is the rustle of the air in the vents and the wind visiting the trees outside, when the darkness is tucked tight around the house and you feel as l…”— Stephen Goodwin, amazon.com
“This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”— Azar Nafisi, amazon.com
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”— Joanne Harris, goodreads.com
“Throughout the years I’ve had many careers, but even when I was working a million jobs to make ends meet, I always made time to write and haunt the library — I could not stop doing either.”— Warren Adler, pickthebrain.com
“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”— Robin Sloan, amazon.com
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”— Joanne Harris, joannechocolat.tumblr.com
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”— Voltaire, amazon.com
“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”— Markus Zusak, goodreads.com
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”— Anne Tyler, rarebooksfirst.wordpress.com
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”— Oscar Wilde, 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
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out…or read. Those late hours when the world is completely still, when the only sound is the rustle of the air in the vents and the wind visiting the trees outside, when the darkness is tucked tight around the house and you feel as l…”— Stephen Goodwin, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com