The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the real sense…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did not seem…

— Betty Smith

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it…

— Samuel Johnson

“We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work…

— Ann Schlee

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the…

— Betty Smith

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

“Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.”

— Tony Collins

“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter”

— Rachel Cusk

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

— Jason Mitchell

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

— Lewis Buzbee

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita