



No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
God, Faith, BooksElizabeth BrowningYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Books, TeaLewis Carroll'And what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'
BooksLewis Carroll in Alice in WonderlandLife is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. - Will, p. 502
Life, BooksCassandra Clare in Chroniken der Schattenjäger - Chroniken der SchattenjägerBook hangover: Inability to start a new book, because you're still living in the last book's world.
Books, Imagination, ReadingUnknownI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Books, Reading, TelevisionGroucho MarxI'm sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?
BooksAlice In WonderlandYou cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Children & Childhood, Books, WritingMaurice SendakOnce, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.
Books, ReadingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindGentlemen, gentlemen. I'll never understand. All these books. A world of knowledge at your fingertips. And what do you do? You play poker all night.
BooksSeven, by William SomersetA person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Books, Knowledge, ReadingMark TwainBooks should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
BooksChristopher PaoliniJeod: 'Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.'
BooksChristopher Paolini in Eragon - Das Vermächtnis der DrachenreiterA bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Books, ReadingJerry SeinfeldThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
BooksWalt DisneyEvery book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
Books, ReadingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindThe world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.
Books, Traveling, WorldAurelius AugustinusSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
BooksFrancis Bacon in EssaysLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
BooksHelen Keller