“ To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. Laura Miller
“ I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sente… Rosie O'Donnell
“ Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. Alan Jacobs
“ She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. Anna Godbersen
“ I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I wa… Frazier Glenn Miller
“ Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. Marguerite Yourcenar
“ Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always. Carol Lynch Williams
“ A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and g… Lewis Buzbee
“ Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery. Aung San Suu Kyi
“ If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print. Lewis Buzbee
“ People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l Michael Chabon
“ I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you.""The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?""A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman. Renee Ahdieh
“ Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever. Veronica Henry
“ Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, t… Tony Reinke
“ I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to… Jo Walton
“ Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered. Kimberly McCreight
“ We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please...We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work, the back… Laurence Cossé
“ Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hu… Vicki Myron
