I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they are written.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

No furniture so charming as books.

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Have you any right to read, especially novels, until you have exhausted the best part of the day in some employment that is called practical?

Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage... Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings and emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Books are ... funny little portable pieces of thought.

All books are either dreams or swords.

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

It is with books as with men-a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude.

What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books!-if you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with the enthusiasm of the adventurer!

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?