Source: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
“This book is to be read in bed.”
Source: The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (16 January 1971), published in Elvis — Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999) by Jerry Osborne, p. 188
Context: I'd like to thank the Jaycees for electing me as one of their outstanding young men. When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... And these gentlemen over here, these are the type of people who care, they're dedicated, and they realize that it is possible that they might be building the kingdom of heaven, it's not just too far fetched, from reality. I'd like to say that I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend — without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
