“ My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking… Kate Morton
“ Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty ye… Christopher Morley
“ There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is… Rainer Maria Rilke
“ Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter," she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed. Emma Clayton
“ And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He wa… Russell Brand
“ And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she w… Dylan Thomas
“ So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into t… Marc Acito
“ Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words. Rachel Kadish
“ Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read. Lemony Snicket
“ By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.- Celine Richard Linklater
“ The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many… C.S. Lewis
“ I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. Roman Payne
“ No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. Stanislaw Lem
“ Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. Kelly Link
