Aurélie de Parseval

“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”
― James Salter, All That Is

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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot