When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books,"…

“So do I ever get to meet them?” she asks. He blinks, almost pulls the phone away from his ear to stare at it.…

— Dot Hutchison

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

— Andrew Vachss

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

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

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

— Robin Sloan

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

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

— Robin Sloan

“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended…

— Katherine Applegate

“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

— Tim Green