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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“Ο στόχος είναι η λήθη.
Θα πρέπει να έφτασα νωρίς.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Αν ξαναρχόμουν στον κόσμο θα ερχόμουν μόνο για να κάνω έρωτα και να φύγω. Και για το μόνο που θα λυπηθώ όταν θα φύγω, θα ‘να�� για τον έρωτα που θα χάσω, για τα πρόσωπα που δεν θα γνωρίσω. Όλα τα άλλα είναι αστεία. Τέλειωσαν οι εποχές που ένας άνθρωπος μπορούσε ν�� αντικαταστήσει τον ερωτικό του σύντροφο με μια συμφωνία του Μπετόβεν. Αυτά ανήκουν στο 19ο αιώνα. Σήμερα, ένας άνθρωπος που προβαίνει σε τέτοιες αντικαταστάσεις είναι μάλλον ύποπτος ψυχολογικών διαταραχών και μιας νοημοσύνης η οποία ακουμπάει την παρανοϊκότητα.”
― Μάνος Χατζιδάκις

“A childhood without books �� that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph