I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.
Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.
Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.
I've always loved books.
I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.
I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'Stuart Little' by EB White, 'A Cricket in Times Square,' all the Beverly Cleary books.
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.
For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
