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

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"We read to know we are not alone"

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."

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

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."