So many books, so little time.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.