“Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.” – Harry Golden

“I like rereading books, too. I don’t trust folk who don’t reread…What you’ve got to teach people is to read slowly.” – Robert Frost

“I would define a book as a work of witchcraft from which there escapes all sorts of images which disturb people’s minds and change their hearts.” – Anatole France

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” – Victor Hugo


A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – Neil Gaiman

A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” – Franz Kafka

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway

“The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can’t read them.” – Bruce and Stan, God Is In The Small Stuff And It All Matters

There is then a creative reading, as well as creative writing.” – Emerson

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” – Ursula K. Le Guin