“Good friends, good
books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“Thou shalt not is
soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman
“Reading is the sole
means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin,
another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates
“There is no friend
as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
“I am simply a ‘book
drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has
for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” — L.M. Montgomery
“It is what you read
when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help
it.” — Oscar Wilde
“Be awesome! Be a
book nut!” — Dr. Seuss
“Good books, like
good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” —
Louisa May Alcott
“The one way of
tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“I cannot remember
the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have
made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I owe everything I
am and everything I will ever be to books.” — Gary Paulsen
“Books are a
uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
“Picking five
favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to
lose.” — Neil Gaiman
“Reading brings us
unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac
“When the Day of
Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their
heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to
Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have
loved reading.” — Virginia Woolf
“Our favorite book
is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our
lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most
need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always
with us.” — Lloyd Alexander
“There are perhaps
no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without
having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.” — Marcel Proust
“I have always
imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“It was books that
taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that
connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” —
James Baldwin
“It is so
unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to
share the happiness with you.” Mark Twain
“I cannot live
without books.” — Thomas Jefferson