Book Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change…

— David Baldacci

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I…

— Charles Spurgeon

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently…

— Umberto Eco

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

— Frank Peretti

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion…

— Nikola Tesla

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where…

— Marcus Samuelsson