“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
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“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
“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 good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”