That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate s loot on Treasure Island

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

A world without books is like a world without color, meaning or life in general.

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a ba