“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love.”

“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. ”

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”

“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”