I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.
There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with an unexpected fearfulness that he saw how the books stretched away into the dar...
Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
The book is man's best invention so far.
With a book he was regardless of time.
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textboo...
That's what this country needs -- more books!
I am a part of all I have read.
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars
I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not emba...
What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then...
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives h...