Book Quote by Anders Rydell

“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is that they…

— Daniel Handler

“The library was one of the few places approved by my mother. I must have read almost every book in that place, living a…

— Skye Warren

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but they…

— Susan Orlean

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had…

— Karin Slaughter

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be well-read paupers.”

— Mark Brownlow

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung…

— Rebecca Solnit

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous