[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

My favorite smells are freshly baked bread, the pages of an old book, and they way my boss’ ass smells when he’s shouting at me.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

Somewhere there must be women reading books,and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks …(from,‘Somewhere in England’)

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.