“I’m lost in my own mind, a poem that never ends, composed of things that aren’t blessed.”— Young Senshi, wnq-writers.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
“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”— Franz Kafka, goodreads.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
“Literature has taken a backseat to the television, don’t you think? It really has. We don’t have a culture anymore that favors the creation of writers, or supports them very well. I mean, serious artists. On Broadway, what they want are cheap comedies and musicals and revivals. It’s nearly impossibl…”— Tennessee Williams, theparisreview.org
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a tab…”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“I think a lot of people still fantasize about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.”— Sophie Kinsella, independent.co.uk
“People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.”— Jonathan Ames, amazon.com
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Reading books forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect, connect one historical moment with another. Reading books provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events, of the world — of life itself.”— Peggy Noonan, catholic.edu
“Unplug and read every day. You stop at least three times a day to eat. Stop at least once a day to read.”— Peggy Noonan, catholic.edu
“You must not stop reading books. That's all. If you seek a happy and interesting life, one of depth, meaning and accomplishment, you must read books.”— Peggy Noonan, catholic.edu
“I believe that theres is one story in the world, and only one… Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil… there is no other story.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly.”— W.B. Yeats, theromantic.com
“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com