“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.”

“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language...”

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public w...”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does ab...”

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyag...”

“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone.”

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

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”