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 “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” ― C.S. Lewis ―

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 "There is no substitute for books in the life of a child." — May Ellen Chase ―

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“I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” ― Nnedi Okorafor ―

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“I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” ― Abraham Lincoln ―  

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 “A thing about books is that they take the same amount of time to read whether you don’t like them at all or if they change your life forever.” — Joe Walters ―

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 “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jacqueline Kennedy ―

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“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?” — Sherman Alexie ―

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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” — Charles W. Eliot ―

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 “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” — George R.R. Martin ―

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

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“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 —

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“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” — George Orwell —

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“The story must strike a nerve in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.” — Susan Sontag —

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“We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness.” – C.S. Lewis – 

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson --

“'Classic' – a book which people praise and don’t read.” ― Mark Twain --

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.” ― Dave Eggers --

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” ― Jules Verne --

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

 “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King --