What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.