It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Maureen Corrigan

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Jane Austen

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan

Never shall I forget the emotion of wonder and delight which seized me when, for the first time, I entered the Library.

Thomas Guille

Libraries are one of the best ideas that humans have had.

Danielle Borasky

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss

Reading makes you smarter and nicer.

M.C. Scott

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

Lydia Perez in 'American Dirt'

So many books, so little time.

Frank Zappa

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.

Albert Einstein

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Jhumpa Lahiri

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie

Every child needs a librarian in their life.

Chris Riddell

One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

Albus Dumbledore

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Ebenezer Scrooge

Reading is a unique form of exploration that will enrich your life.

Neil Armstrong

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

T.S. Eliot

A library is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Isaac Asimov

To me a library is truly a place of magic.

J.K. Rowling

She had spent most of her childhood in libraries, taking refuge among the shelves, absorbing books as if they were air.

Celeste Ng, 'Little Fires Everywhere'

Books hold the secrets of the world, the thoughts that men and women have had.

E.B. White

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day

Vera Lynn

I sincerely hope your Christmas may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings.

Jane Bennet, 'Pride and Prejudice'

I consider my books as close personal friends; I spend hours gazing at the covers in reverie, recalling the good times we've had together.

Lucy Mangan

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone. 

Tyrion Lannister

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Lemony Snicket

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Lemony Snicket

Libraries are full of sunken treasure.

Virginia Woolf

I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Saul Bellow

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

There are worse crimes than burning books. One is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

We read to know we're not alone.

William Nicholson

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Books are humanity in print.

Barbara Tuchman

Reading has helped me to develop empathy. I like reading about complex characters and situations and imagining how I would respond in similar circumstances. I love trying on other lives.

Carys Bray

Books are the ultimate frontier of freedom.

Wislawa Szymborska

Readers are seldom lonely or bored, because reading is a refuge and an enlightenment.

Paul Theroux

Libraries represent the temples of cultures. There wouldn't have been any progress for the human race without books.

Alessandra Distefano

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 William Eliot

I always feel safe and comfortable and happy in the presence of anyone who is really fond of reading.

W. Robertson Nicoll

Books are companions even if you don't open them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Books are like the windows of a great tower. They let light in.

William Leroy Stidger

It seems to me that there is always something luminous in the face of a person in the act of reading.

Paul Theroux

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

How little of the din of this stupid world enters into a library.

George Dawson

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

Jojen Reed, A Dance With Dragons

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

Jorge Luis Borges

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Lord Byron

Thankful for this place of beauty, interest, calm and learning in Town

Library user