In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit.

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.

No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.