"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me—the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."

PB: Kacey Rohl

"'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper—even a rag like this
Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his."

PB: Cristina Blackwater

"Love of learning is the most necessary passion...in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.."

PB: Amy Acker

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."

PB: Dev Patel

"I do not value treasures or riches; it always gives me more pleasure to put wealth in my thought than thought in my wealth."

PB: Gina Rodriguez

"We are all divorced from life ... every one of us, more or less. ... We have almost come to look upon real life as an effort, as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books."

PB: Ed Stoppard

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

PB: John Boyega

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves."

PB: Callum Blue

"It is a foolish clemency, when you jostle against poets on every streetcorner, to spare paper that will be wasted anyhow."

PB: Miles Teller

"I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

PB: Robert Sheehan

"Books of every description, the works of Historians, Philosophers, and Metaphysicians, were now eagerly devoured by her...and soon the surprise of innocence was converted into admiration of the wit and beauty with which some of these works abounded."

PB: Firstname Lastname

"I can hardly open my mouth to speak without feeling as though the sea burst its dams and overflowed. How then shall I express what my soul has received, and how can I put it down in a book?"

PB: Mark Ronson

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

PB: Jason Momoa

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."

PB: Anna Chancellor

"A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient."

PB: Ezra Miller

"She told him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months..."

PB: Matthew Daddario

"Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted."

PB: Gugu Mbatha-Raw

"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."

PB: Gillian Anderson

"The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with the fingers of a mole his dullard's distinction between books and life..."

PB: Domhnall Gleeson