There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

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

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book I want.

Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.