“ The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. Elizabeth McCracken
“ I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter. Katherine Dunn
“ Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame wil… Roman Payne
“ The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wi… Fridik Erlings
“ As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Boo… Jan Karon
“ Each book which so far is written is filled with a new thoughts... new images... new arguments... new discussions. Deyth Banger
“ To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things. Compton Gage
“ There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. John Hersey
“ ...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them. Pietro Candido Decembrio
“ Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people. Compton Gage
“ Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. Judy Blume
