“Sometimes Dick would remember a time when he hadn’t been able to read. All he could do then was riffle the pages and try to smell the stories out of them. But now, oh now, he was a magician too, for he could unearth the hidden enchantment in the books any time he wanted to.”

– Charles de Lint

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West

“If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley