because

"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say."

- Flannery O'Connor

(One of my sisters posted this quote here in January.)

carry a book

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” 

― Stephen King

two motives

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

― Bertrand Russell

in the bookstore

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” 

― Henry Ward Beecher