"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper"

-Michael Cunningham

"Books serve to show man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

-Abraham Lincoln

"It is what you read when you don't have to that will determine what you will be when you can't help it."

-Oscar Wilde

"Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood."

-John Green

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

-P.J. O'Rourke

"There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book."

-Josh Jameson