"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

"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 Baldwin

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates

"Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day."
— Kurt Vonnegut

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

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

—chapter 8"
— Mary Stewart (The Stormy Petrel)