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- We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- Stewart's Law of Retroaction, Murphy's Law, Book Two
- These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet
- Beware the man of one book.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- I live for books.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Emerson
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888), Table Talk
- It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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