For today’s Thursday 13 I’m listing some of my favourite book quotes…

1. Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.  ~Author Unknown
2. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.  ~Oscar Wilde
3. "Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.  ~François Mauriac
4. There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ~Bertrand Russell
5. A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.  ~Edward P. Morgan
6. My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.  ~Thomas Helm
7. I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.  ~Charles de Secondat,
8. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.  ~Bern Williams
9. If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.  ~Sherri Chasin Calvo
10. A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum — of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. ~Henry Miller
11. The public library is the most dangerous place in town. ~John Ciardi
12. I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges
13. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say ‘How to Build a Boat ~Stephen Wright