“ How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! Walter Benjamin
“ I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or… Sara Nelson
“ No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. Bohumil Hrabal
“ I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to… Lloyd Jones
“ When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. Clifton Fadiman
“ I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. Mary Ann Shaffer
“ Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardne… Helen Keller
“ Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality,… David Quammen
“ People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skat… Jennifer E. Smith
“ When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the boo… Colin Firth
“ One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be. E. Lockhart
