Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. –Abraham Lincoln

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. –Henry David Thoreau

Who learns most from a good book is the author. –Jose Bergamin

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. –Virginia Woolf

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. –Marsha Norman