"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
-Philip Pullman

"We are the books we read and things we love.  Cal is the ocean and the letters he left.  Our ghosts hide in the things we leave behind."
-Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

"It's lovely when writers I like like each other."
-Among Others by Jo Walton

"There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.  When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn't all that warm and they could sit reading and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head."
-Among Others by Jo Walton

"It doesn't matter.  I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books."
-Among Others by Jo Walton