Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return."

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

Cornellia Funke

"Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before."

Cornellia Funke

Anthony Doerr

"Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death..... and here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

Anthony Doerr

Groucho Marx

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Humor is reason gone mad."

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."

Groucho Marx

Andre Maurois

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."

Andre Maurois

AS Byatt

"What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books."

AS Byatt