“Writing is a drug, sweet, irresistible, and exhausting.”
Joyce Carol Oates (born 193 
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939): Still-Life With Letters
“Writers will happen in the best of families.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
“A book holds a house of gold.”
Chinese Proverb
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890):
Still-Life With Books And Candle
“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
Heinrich Mann (1871 - 1950)
Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926): Young Woman Reading
“There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.”
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
