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.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.