Friendship Quote by Wayne Booth

“A good book not only entertains you, but also informs you. And when you finish reading it,you feel as if you have lost a…

— Irish Argo

“What is friendship, if not the chance for a new perspective?”

— Kelly Ann Callahan

“You have just confirmed to me that one of the most fortunate purposes of literature is to bring like-minded people together and get them…

— Laurence Cossé

“What a writer needs? A friend. A friend that’ll accompany beside solitude itself.”

— Desi Puspitasari

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

— Isaac D'Israeli

“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest…

— Rebecca Raisin

“Friendship is a mysterious encounter that takes place in the soul.”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

“Some of the best friends we have are books. Why? Well, they belong usually to our relaxed armchair hours. They come only if chosen;…

— Esther Baldwin York

“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if…

— Pamela Paul

“And it is in New York I have those strangest things of all: human friendships. Not many friendships and not of spent familiarities: for…

— Mary MacLane

“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends”

— Helen Keller

“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I said. That…

— Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer