Bookish Quotes #27

"A good book should leave you...slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it."
     ~ William Styron

"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.  It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and a many kinds of lives as we wish."
     ~ S. I. Hayakawa