If we didn’t have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would dehydrate. — Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book. — Kin Hubbard

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me. — Anatole France

Life happened because I turned the pages. — Alberto Manguel

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. — Flannery O’Connor

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow

Never judge a book by its movie. — J.W. Eagan

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. — Tom Clancy

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. — Jerry Seinfield