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

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

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

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

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

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

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. Lewis

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

People flock in...in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered able to answer...Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
Terry Pratchett

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.
Nicola Yoon