“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”— Carol Shields, 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
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”— Angela Carter, amazon.com
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“We’re talking about the novel, right? But maybe we’re not. We’re talking about ourselves. And I guess that’s what can start to happen when you talk about a book.”— Meg Wolitzer, amazon.com
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“Make a book about why you love your spouse and why you are thankful for him/her.”— Mary May Larmoyeux, familylife.com
“They’re kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?”— William Goldman, Grandson, Fred Savage, amazon.com
“There's nothing I can say that wouldn't be better said in, like, a book.”— Poussey Washington, evolegnarts.tumblr.com
“I opened a book. Something which has—in all my years on this planet — never ben a particularly dangerous activity.”— Jack Thorne, Scorpius Malfoy, amazon.com
“Yesterday I celebrated the birth of my twins. Tomorrow I celebrate the birth of my book. I hope the book poops less.”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com