Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles,...

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books....

The First Book...

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast; who plead for love, and look for recompense, more than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what...

I have traveled to sacred places through the pages of books.

I do not mind sleepless nights to be involved in reading.

Finding one's place in the world is never easy. Have courage and be true to who you are. Remember, those who dare to be different are often the ones who change the world.

Can you imagine life without a book?

When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?

She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange,...

More people are finding satisfaction in wealth, but real wealth is knowledge; knowledge is organized in books, and books are available in the libraries.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

The art of not reading is a very important one. [...] You should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. – A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones:...

I cannot live without reading.

"You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' 'We can't both be Alexander.' 'Well sometimes I think you're two sides of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.'"

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I love books, they're in my blood.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of...

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.