“ The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered m… Jane Smiley
“ Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.The heartthrobs of the prophets and the sagesBeat through these bindings; and my quick hand slipsOld books from dust… Grace Noll Crowell
“ Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Edward Gibbon
“ My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes... Adriana Trigiani
“ Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. C.S. Lewis
“ We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can… Daniel Pennac
“ Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence. Orson Scott Card
“ [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson
