“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.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.”

“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.”

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

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

“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.”