“ As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war. Lewis H. Lapham
“ Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. Jerry Spinelli
“ They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. Loretta Chase
“ What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our dar… Terry Brooks
“ I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read Elizabeth Knox
“ The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone… Claudia Gray
“ There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up. Mizuki Nomura
“ Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for tod… Courtney Milan
“ Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment. Sei Shōnagon
“ For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough. Carlos María Domínguez
“ Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling… Laura Miller
“ Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. Clifton Fadiman
“ A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. Siri Hustvedt
“ I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through everypa… Michele Bardsley
“ But I loved the library simply because it was a library. I love libraries. I like reading, but I love libraries. Being surrounded by books makes me feel safe, the way some people need trees or mountai… Emily Wing Smith
“ He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. Charles Finch
“ Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their W… Thomas Paine
