“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”  Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”  Sir Richard Steele

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”  Harold Bloom (1930 -  ), O Magazine, April 2003

“Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?”  Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”  Robert Byrne

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”  Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

I cannot live without books.   Thomas Jefferson