Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.