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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

A home without books is a body without soul.

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

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’

The world was never the same again after the arrival of a good book.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.