We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!

You talk like a book.

‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

"There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!"
-Harry Wormwood

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.