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.

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!

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

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

Can you imagine life without a book?

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

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.

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...

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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.

The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.

"Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction."

I own a book, he thought, delighted.

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."