“ There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kind… Theodore Roosevelt
“ Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books for boys they fancied.'Ellie bent down and picked up the stone and put it on the t… Hazel Osmond
“ I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs, each with stori… Clay Carmichael
“ A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. Carmen DeSousa
“ A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they wan… Christopher Morley
“ I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff Jeanette Winterson
“ Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.) Susan Sontag
“ All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it… Susan Sontag
“ Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerpri… Kim Edwards
“ She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody… Lev Grossman
“ I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell. Steve Aylett
“ Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary. Elizabeth McCracken
“ Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel… Ángel González
“ I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. Scarlett Thomas
“ Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. Young-Ha Kim
“ Loving Sarah was like reading a particularly good book. That pressing and overwhelming need to just devour it as fast as possible is matched only by the need to savour it slowly and completely, lest a… Nadine Rose Larter
“ I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. David Foster Wallace
