Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The judge said he was going to throw the book at me. I hoped it was an ebook in the cloud, and not a heavy dictionary.

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

I prefer physical books to eBooks, because an eBook can’t be the solution to a wobbly chair like a real book can.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.