968 – “The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing…”

-Severus Snape in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

814 – Jane Smiley on Books

“An inexpensive paperback book from a reputable publisher is a small, rectangular, boxlike object a few inches long, a few inches wide, and an inch or so thick. It is easy to stack and store, easy to buy, keep give away, or throw away. As an object, it is user-friendly and routine, a mature technological form, hard to improve upon and easy to like. Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

–Jane Smiley

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700 – “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

–Neil Gaiman

647 – “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”

–anonymous [See Source Notes]

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

–Charles W Eliot

604 – “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

–William Somerset Maugham

564 – “Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by time I read them.”

–Arnold Lobel

540 – “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

–Mason Cooley [Attributed]

471 – “Librarians are the generals in the War on Ignorance.”

–anonymous

460 – “I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”

–Tahereh Mafi [Attributed]