Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
I cannot live without books.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.