"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. "
— Maya Angelou

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. "
— Helen Keller

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's look on Treasure Island"
— Walt Disney Company

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

"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)

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso