When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
Henry Miller

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow

Le cinéaste pense avec les yeux et les oreilles, le peintre avec les mains. La littérature est un refuge. Elle approfondit la vision du monde.
Jean-Luc Godard

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
Mark Helprin

How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.
Jacqueline Woodson

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen

What will be left of us in this world? Sentences instead of voices, sentences instead of photographs.
Silvina Ocampo

Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Carl Phillips

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tartt

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart…It’s a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag