"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back."

"All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world."

"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."

"Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it."

"Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads."

"When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes."

"Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read."

"I found that the clergy did not understand their own book"

"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."

"She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book."

"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

"Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book."

"It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon..."

"There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"A book worth reading is worth buying."