Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.