“ How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive… Anna Quindlen
“ My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the follow… Guy Gavriel Kay
“ He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid. Kelley Armstrong
“ Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out… Orhan Pamuk
“ For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside. Elizabeth C. Bunce
“ I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied,… Sven Birkerts
“ (in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two… Ray Bradbury
“ I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way; I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m good… Kate Morton
“ I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours. Dorothy Parker
“ It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live. Alessandro Baricco
“ Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand… Alan Bennett
“ There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds,… Gordon B. Hinckley
“ I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. Ruta Sepetys
“ All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. John Ruskin
