“ In the new faith, there is only one commandment. It is this commandment, and this commandment alone, that must be followed to end the times of suffering, which are soon to come. FORSAKE USURY. Compton Gage
“ You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals. Compton Gage
“ The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books Theodore Roosevelt
“ If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty. Compton Gage
“ A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken p… Mark Twain
“ There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. Philip Pullman
“ My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X
“ I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen
“ Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den eine… Alberto Manguel
“ Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. Alberto Manguel
“ Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime… Alberto Manguel
“ One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. Alberto Manguel
“ Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the found… John Green
“ Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all th… Neal Stephenson
“ In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear. Judy Blume
“ I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. Sarah Vowell
“ And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and h… Jonathan Franzen
