If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

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.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

Life without books, chocolate & coffee is just useless.

Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly convincing reason why books ought to be given to them, to be a rebuke to them and, perchance,...

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the...

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone ca...

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us...

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity