Words on a page

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us." -- W. H. Auden

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it.  It is like falling in love." -- Christopher Morley 

"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own." -- Mark Twain

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." -- Abraham Lincoln

"...A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years..." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." -- Maya Angelou

"You cannot open a book without learning something." -- Confucius

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." -- Henry David Thoreau