"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"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

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."
— Steven Wright

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. (from the introduction)"
— Stephen King (Skeleton Crew)

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
— George W. Bush

"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which are frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you...And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too. "
— Italo Calvino (If On a Winter's Night a Traveler)

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
— Margaret Fuller

"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
— Japanese proverb

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
— Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)

"When you read a book as a child,it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your life does..."
— Nora Ephron

"The world was hers for the reading."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job."
— John Berry

"Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
— Henry Ward Beecher

"If you take a book with you on a journey,...an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
— Benjamin Franklin

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."
— Germaine Greer

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
— Laurence Peter

"My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads."
— A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible)

""Yeach. Flyod is his batman."
"His what?"
"Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
"You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.""
— Robert B. Parker (Mortal Stakes)

"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!"
— Jan Karon

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
— Mark Twain

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
— Philip Pullman