1. A great Book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. –William Styron

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. –Oscar Wilde

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. –George Bernard Shaw

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. –J.K. Rowling

A good book has no ending. –R.D. Cumming