When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Only the nonreader fears books.