What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
If you only ever read one book in your lifetime, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence."
There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed
The book is the greatest interactive medium of all time. You can underline it, write in the margins, fold down a page, skip ahead. And you can take it anywhere.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.