“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Books are the training weights of the mind.” – Epictetus

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain

“I think the special connection between coffee and books is simple: ideas. Bookstores are creative places that are full of new ideas, stories, and perspectives. Coffee is the lubricant for that creativity.” – Matthew Davis

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” – Toni Morrison

“No two persons ever read the same book.” – Edmund Wilson

“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” – Franz Kafka

“Great writing is about great reality—clearly seen and greatly felt. Don’t write it on your screen until you have written it on your heart.” – John Piper

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” – G. K. Chesterton

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor 

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” – C. S. Lewis

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“Of the making of many books there is no end.” – Ecclesiastes 12:12a

“Tolle, lege.” – Augustine