“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

Oscar Wilde

“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled, ‘This could change your life.”

Helen Exley

“Without words, without writing and without books
there would be no history, there could be no concept of
humanity.”

Hermann Hesse

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It
may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows
it’s not fooling a soul.”

Neil Gaiman

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

Jessamyn West

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

Philip Pullman

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Literature is equipment for living”

Kenneth Burke

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Haruki Murakami

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life”

W. Somerset Maugham