"I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day." - Louisa May Alcott
"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition." - Isaac Asimov
"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly." - Francis Bacon
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive." - James A Baldwin
"After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy." - James M Barrie
"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]." - Simone de Beauvoir
