Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Books just don’t register with this crowd. They think I lack common sense; I think they lack a part of their souls.

لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان

"No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".

But books meant so much for him he forgot that they were a bewilderment to others.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

It is worthy of notice that many of this generation, fed on text-books, on anthologies and on abstracts, cannot read.

Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.

There are those who will laugh at those who read useful books, and yet there is little difference between those who cannot read and those who will not read — the result of both is ignorance.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven’t heard of some of them.

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don’t know how to read them.