A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.

—Mark Twain

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.

—Clifton Fadiman

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.                                                                            —C. S. Lewis

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.                                                  —Ray Bradbury

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

—Franz Kafka

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

—Ernest Hemingway

 I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

—E. M. Forster

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

—Emily Dickinson

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.

—Edward P. Morgan

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

—Chinese Proverb

There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

 —Marina Tsvetaeva