“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.”— Philip K Dick, thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely…must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.”— Nicola Yoon, amazon.com
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”— Gustave Flaubert, books.google.com.ph
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die.”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“The New York Times Book Review once called one of my books 'almost miraculous', to which I say, 'Almost!?'”— John Green, youtube.com
“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well, the reason why everyone loves them, is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com