There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.

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

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

Drink deeply from good books.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Don’t get into a relationship with someone who doesn’t own any books.

We read to know we are not alone.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

A good book has no ending.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.