[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop…

“If there is a hole inside you,stuff it with books.They will stop the bleeding.”

— Ksenia Anske

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Francois Mauriac

“Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or…

— Mark Helprin

“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was…

— Karen A. Wyle

“Reading, she says, is for the underemployed.”

— Isabel Waidner

“Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot…

— Italo Calvino

“This book I'm reading says I should set one small goal each day. Yesterday I got out of bed like there was no tomorrow.”

— Leigh Stein

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

“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

“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 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