“ It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors. Alice Steinbach
“ Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found the bookcases carved right into the wall. Hundreds of leather-bound volumes rested in dim alcoves.… Jodi Meadows
“ I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were noises, doors, howls, horses, people. All side by side, pressed tightly against… Ismail Kadare
“ Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely? Laura Miller
“ And she is the readerwho browses the shelfand looks for new worldsbut finds herself. Laura Purdie Salas
“ . . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside. Lorna Sage
“ Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way? Django Wexler
“ What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this… W.B. Yeats
“ As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the w… Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read. Eleanor Brown
“ An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book,… Roger Ebert
“ This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read it & lived it & dreamed with it. Every time a book… Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
“ Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him. Keith Miller
