“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”— Dejan Stojanovic, amazon.com
“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
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul.”— Lyudmila Ulitskaya, goodreads.com
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”— Hermann Hesse, 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
“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”— Ruta Sepetys, amazon.com
“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”— Jorge Luis Borges, 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
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”— E. L. Doctorow, en.wikiquote.org
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com