“ No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. Thomas Carlyle
“ You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. Charles Jones
“ People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual. Joan Vass
“ Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. Christopher Morley
“ It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar… Anna Quindlen
“ I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. Louisa May Alcott
“ 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. Paula Fox
“ Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. C.S. Lewis
“ Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. Annie Dillard
“ All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important. Isabelle Rowan
“ Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. Catherine Drinker Bowen
“ If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
“ A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“ There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell
“ Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse
“ There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg. Frank Davies
“ I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. Margaret Peterson Haddix
