“When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.”

“I wish it were as easy to buy time as it is to buy good books.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”

Richard Llewellyn book How Green Was My Valley

“My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer