"I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."
― George R.R. Martin

"I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."
― Zelda Fitzgerald

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." 
― Toni Morrison

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."
― Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It's only a bloody book isn't it? Something to pass the time, to make us feel wonder dream smile cringe cry discover."
- Tracy from Australia