Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.                                                                                      —Thomas Hardy

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.  —Susan Sontag

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

                                                                       —Alfred Whitney Griswold

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.             —Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

                                                                                    —Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

You can’t tell a book by its movie.                           —Louis A. Safian

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