"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." --Oscar Wilde

"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before." --Cliff Fadiman

"Don't judge a book by it's cover."

"A good novel tells you the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author." --Gilbert Chesterton

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." --J.M. Barrie

"In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is." -Geoffrey Cottrell

"I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading one, so I woke up from sheer boredom."

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." -Mark Twain

"Don't judge a book by its movie."

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

"The writer writes about the writer."

"True creativity often starts where language begins."

"The human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life but poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for." -Mr. Keating, Dead Poets Society

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia" -E.L. Doctorow