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- The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
- I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to… — Nick Cave
- I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading… — Adriana Trigiani
- Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau
- Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere
- W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W.C. Fields
- A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne
- They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust