“ Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire… Martijn Benders
“ The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book se… Gary Shteyngart
“ When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. Carmela Dutra
“ The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??For god sake, one drop truth whi… Deyth Banger
“ Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else? Daniel Marques
“ Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading. Carla H. Krueger
“ Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. Thomas Carlyle
“ I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual. Susan Lendroth
“ I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under… G.K. Chesterton
“ Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it - say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the phot… Susan Sontag
“ The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. Phillip Adams
“ And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away… Jerry Spinelli
“ The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. Frank E. Peretti
“ I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them. Love The Stacks Bookstore
“ All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle
“ A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L'Engle
