I don t believe in the kind of magic in my books But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nosebetween the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Pada sebuah buku yg berbicara tentang masa depan, aku melihat wajahmu menjelma pagi yang terbit di tiap halaman bersama asaku.

I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.