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

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,...

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

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.

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.

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 happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

Where should I go? -Alice. That depends on where you want to end up. - The Cheshire Cat.

I love the smell of old books," Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs."

When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become ,...

The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to...

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves {and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator}, they became chapters in it themselves.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in...

We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black,...

For me, what is still important when reading a book is to establish dreams that are suitable for what I read.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in...

This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering...