You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the…

What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who…

— Cornelia Funke

“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said when,…

— Cornelia Funke

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make…

— John Updike

“I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.”

— Robin Sloan

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change -…

— Andrew Vachss

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come…

— Julie Schumacher

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that…

— Mark Helprin

“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.”

— Kersten Hamilton

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

— Sebastian Bach

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it…

— Margaret George

“...if culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you…

— Khaled Hosseini

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?"…

— Nelson Algren