If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. Liz Carpenter
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read. Neil Gaiman
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. Wally Lamb
Grammar is the grave of letters. Elbert Hubbard
Books worth reading are worth re-reading. Holbrook Jackson
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. George R. R. Martin
One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list. Mary B. W. Tabor
A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us. W.H. Auden
I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. Kurt Vonnegut
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. Phyllis Theroux
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. Lord Byron
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. Elizabeth Drew
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. Svetlana Alliluyeva
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. Lord Byron
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D.H. Lawrence
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. John F. Kennedy
Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. Susan Sontag
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman
