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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Never judge a book by its movie.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.