'Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.'
~ Salman Rushdie
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'
~ Rudyard Kipling
'Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.'
~ G. K. Chesterton
'Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.'
~ Joseph Addison
'The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.'
~ Elizabeth Drew
"But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows...
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,
'Fool,' said my Muse to me; 'look in thy heart and write.'"
~ Sir Philip Sidney
'The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.'
~ Mark Twain
'I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.'
~ E. M. Forster
'Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to.'
~ William Faulkner
'Dwell as near as possilbe to the channel in which your life flows.'
~ Henry David Thoreau
