Friendship Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a…

— Sven Birkerts

“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who I am,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“And he gave me a few of the Xeroxed sheets of paper lying on the table in front of him. As he passed them…

— Milorad Pavic

“Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...”

— Phyllis Whitney

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The book was called Man’s Search for Meaning by the Jewish author Viktor Frankl. The book had been a real-life story about Viktor Frankl’s…

— Erik Hamre

“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine…

— Robert Hass

“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize…

— Christopher Morley

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski