“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”— Louisa May Alcott Related Quotes “Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”— Günter Grass “As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.”— Alberto Manguel “As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.”— Lewis H. Lapham