Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.  John Lyly

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.     Virginia Woolf

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.  Jessamyn West

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.Igor Stravinsky

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.Elle Macpherson

For friends... do but look upon good Books:  they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.  Francis Bacon

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.     Carl Sagan

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.  Helen E. Haines

From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.  S.M. Crothers

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.Diane Wakoski 

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.Miguel de Cervantes

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Groucho Marx