The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.