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“At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".”

“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

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

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.”

“When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...”

“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.”

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.”

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”