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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes