anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

My characters don't always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested." Sir Thomas Bacon (1561-1626)

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Speaking personally you can have my gun but you ll take my book when you pry my cold dead fingers off of the binding