• Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. —Charlaine Harris
• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. —Joseph Brodsky
• There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. —Henry Louis Mencken
• And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. —A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
• If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them. —John Waters
• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. —Charles Caleb Colton
• Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. -Carol Shields
• Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. —Emilie Buchwald
• And so you go out with girl, and you’re driving. “So what are you reading right now?” And all too often, “Well, I’m not much of a reader.” WELL I’M NOT MUCH OF A DINNER BUYER. GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT. —Henry Rollins
• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. —George Gissing
• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

—C.S. Lewis

• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. —Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. —Voltaire
• I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. —L.M. Montgomery
• When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. —Michel de Montaigne
• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. —Maya Angelou
• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. —Salman Rushdie