“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”

“Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.”

“There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.”

“To whole room her eyes are numb,
As she reads from a true love story.
From the pages of a book her lover comes,
Her heart bleeds, it's a true love story.”

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”

“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.”

“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”

“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”