Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou

Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. 
— Harper Lee

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lloyd Alexander

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

Charles Dickens

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

― Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

― Charles Dickens

Christopher Morley

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

-- Christopher Morley