Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.