Memories?

Do any of these bring back memories?

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
~ Jean Cocteau

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
~ Oscar Wilde

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
~ Henry David Thoreau

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry.
~ Emily Dickinson

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'
~ Helen Exley

Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
~ Virginia Woolf

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
~ Maya Angelou

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed
~ Marina Tsvetaeva

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
~ Jessamyn West