Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a read more

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more

In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be read more

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!

Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.