A book lives a new life every time it is read.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Looking backward through life, one can see the points of change like great locks through which one glides on a flood wave, so smoothly,…

— Mary O'Hara

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

— Alexandra Daddario

To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing,…

— Sheila Heti

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages…

— Dan Fogelberg

In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.”

— Amit Kalantri

“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”

— Julie Rugg

“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.”

— Harold Bloom

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson