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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.

As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate

The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.