Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

We live for books.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it’s been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

…bookstores, libraries… they’re the closest thing I have to a church.

I’m so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I’ll remember today...

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He’ll often take better care of his books than of his own health;...

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.