“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
“Books are like seeds: they come to life when you read them & grow spines & leaves. I need trees around me as I need books around me, so building bookshelves is something like planting trees.”— Roger Deakin, amazon.com
“For the reader, a work of art can make a kind of mantra: by giving form to devastation, the poem rescues the reader from a darkness without shape or gravity; it is an island in a free fall; it becomes his companion in grief, his rescuer, a proof that suffering can be made somehow to yield meaning.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she…”— Rosemarie Urquico, patheos.com
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”— Anthony Trollope, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“If you go to someone’s house and they don’t have any books don’t [sleep with] them.”— John Waters, imdb.com
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”— Peter Ackroyd, amazon.com
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“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
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”— Peter Ackroyd, amazon.com
“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com