“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“No compass comes with this life, just eyes,
so to map it out you must look inside,
sure books could guide you but your heart defines you, chica”

Jay-Z (1969) American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executive, songwriter, record producer and investor

“Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“If you give the royalties from your book, I shall give the land.”

Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker

“People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.”

David Mitchell book Ghostwritten

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”

Walter Pater (1839–1894) essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher