“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the writer and his wife ever reads it.”

John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

“Books ought to have good endings.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We all read to learn the truth about ourselves, and we read to escape from the world we know into someone else’s universe.”

Adèle Geras, Teen

“The books in a person’s house reveal an enormous amount of what’s going on in his head.”

Paul Theroux, My Other Life