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.
-- Christopher Morley

Having your book turned into a movie is like having your oxen turned into boullion cubes.
-- John LeCarre'

When am I dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
-- Hilaire Belloc

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry, too.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn people.
-- Heinrich Heine

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
-- Jorge luis Borges

When I'm near the end of a good book, I need to sleep in the same room with it.
-- Joan Didion

The moment a book is lent, I begin to miss it.
-- Anatole Broyard

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
-- Vincent Starrett

I wish to have one copy of every book in the world.
-- Sir Thomas Phillips

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
-- Stephanie Mallame

A home without books is like a room without windows.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

I cannot live without books.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book ahould be a ball of light in one's hand.
-- Ezra Pound