“This Life is More than Just a read through.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”

“Life is more than just steering a course around pain.”

“But, you see, Mom, there are things that one must do in this life that are just a little more than living. I could never be satisfied with just going through life knowing that there are millions of people all over the world who are being stepped on and pushed around by bullies.”

“Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.”

“I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die.”

“He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have knowne no more than other men.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“Reading is more important than writing.”