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The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.Short Reading
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.Short World
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.Short Reading
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.Short
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.Short Children
When I was your age, television was called books.Short Humor
A book is a gift you can open again and again.Short
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.Short Reading
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.Short Mind
Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.Short Comfort
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.Short Humor Reading
Books were safer than other people anyway.Short
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.Short Writing
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.Short
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.Reading
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.Reading
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.Reading
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.Reading
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.Reading
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.Reading Literature Writing
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.Reading
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.Reading
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.Reading
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.Reading
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.Reading
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.Reading
Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.Reading
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.Reading Words Literature
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.Reading
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.Reading
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?Reading
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.Reading
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.Reading
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.Reading
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.Reading
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read themReading
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.Reading Literature
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?Reading
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.Humor Reading
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.Humor
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.Humor
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Humor
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.Humor Men
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Humor Laughter Reading
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.Humor Reading
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.Humor Writing
There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.Humor
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.Humor Reading
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.Humor Reading
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.Humor Problems Reading
A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace.Humor Reading
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.Humor Mind
The covers of this book are too far apart.Humor
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.Humor
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.Humor
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.Humor
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.Life Habit
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.Life
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!Life People
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.Life Idea
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.Life Humor Men
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.Life Literature Simile
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.Life Reading
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.Life World
Many people read constantly and yet cannot tell you what they have read. The best way to read a book is to introspect about it. See how it applies to your own life. And learn to discriminate.Life People Reading
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It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.Honesty
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.Truth
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.Mind
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.Trust Reading
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.Secret
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.Simile
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.Wisdom People Reading
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.Truth
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.Children
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.Writing
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.Freedom Philosophy
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.Happiness Inspirational Reading
God has not to be earned. He has only to be sought. Meditation is the only way. Beliefs, reading books - these cannot give you realization... Meditation brings proof of the existence of GodGod Belief Meditation Self realization
To be worthwhile, books should cause you to think. If they do that, you will find that your mind is developing.Mind
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.Morality
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.Imagination Short
One must always be careful of books... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.Change Words
That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentenceDeath Life
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.Love
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.Advice Reading Literature
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.Character
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.Wisdom
If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.Food
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.Habit Reading
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.People Reading
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.Inspirational
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.Universe
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.Writing
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of booksLove Poetry Learning
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.Dreams Soul
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Writer Writing
We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.Inspirational
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.Friends
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.Humanity Understanding
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...Freedom
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.Experience Reading
Books are a narcotic.Short
Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.Literature
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.Short Humor Writing
The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to readShort Reading
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.
A childhood without books - that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.Joy Literature
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.Literature
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.Children Reading Literature
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eightChange Man
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.Short Literature
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.Imagination World Writing
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.Silence Reading
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?Words
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.Time Moment
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.Art
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.Joy Learning Reading
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.Love Short
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this book survives, his ideas live.Idea Writing
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.Thought Reading
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.Secret
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.God Music Short
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values
I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.Writing
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Short Humor Writing
The books... they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.Short
Nice things don't happen in storybooks... Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.Wisdom Knowledge
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Short
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.Idea Writing
The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It's the desire to learn that's scarceLearning
Spend your time in the company of geniuses, sages, children, and books.Time Children
Self-realization is not something one can learn from books; it comes only through personal experience. Realization of Truth, the experience of God — not dogma merely — is what every religion should bring to its followersGod Religion Knowledge Self realization
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.Family Friendship Relationship
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.Comfort Reading
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.Music Poetry
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.History Humanity Writing
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.Friendship
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.Words
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.Experience Reading
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.Love Reading
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.Literature
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.Short
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.Memory Growth Reading
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.Emotions Idea
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.Knowledge Light Reading
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange placeIdea
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.Short
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.Short Secret
If you take one little step (in the spiritual direction) it's worth all the scriptures on the planet. Do it before it's too late.Action Spirituality
If they wrote it to make money, don't read it.Short Money
Books don't need an audience, movies do.Short
To write a great book, you must first become the book.Writer
Study logic and math, because once you've mastered them, you won't fear any book.Fear
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.Habit Opinion Reading
I do things like getting in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.Short Future Past
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.Short Humor Spirit
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.Truth
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and sometimes they're amiable and sometimes not.Idea
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.Beauty Reading Words Literature
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.Emotions Reading Literature
Of all things, I liked books best.Short
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.Reading
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.Short
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.Sadness
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.Reading Literature
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.Reading
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.Short Man
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who's not quite an adult/Isn't really boring.Writing
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.Short Reading
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.Literature
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul.
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.Reading
So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.Reading Literature
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.
"Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.Funny
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. 
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. 
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. 
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. 
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. 
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. 
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. 
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. 
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. 
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. 
Literature is news that stays news. 
A book is a gift you can open again and again. 
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. 
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. 
Books were safer than other people anyway. 
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. 
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. 
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. 
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. 
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. 
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. 
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. 
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. 
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. 
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. 
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down. 
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. 
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. 
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. 
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. 
Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. 
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. 
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. 
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. 
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? 
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. 
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. 
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. 
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. 
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them 
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. 
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? 
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. 
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun. 
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. 
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. 
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. 
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. 
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. 
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. 
There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H. 
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. 
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. 
The covers of this book are too far apart. 
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. 
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. 
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. 
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. 
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. 
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go! 
A good book is an event in my life. 
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. 
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. 
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. 
Many people read constantly and yet cannot tell you what they have read. The best way to read a book is to introspect about it. See how it applies to your own life. And learn to discriminate. 
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
God has not to be earned. He has only to be sought. Meditation is the only way. Beliefs, reading books - these cannot give you realization... Meditation brings proof of the existence of God
To be worthwhile, books should cause you to think. If they do that, you will find that your mind is developing.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
One must always be careful of books... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
Books are a narcotic.
Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.
A childhood without books - that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this book survives, his ideas live.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values
I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.
The books... they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.
Nice things don't happen in storybooks... Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Don't just teach your children to read... Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It's the desire to learn that's scarce
Self-realization is not something one can learn from books; it comes only through personal experience. Realization of Truth, the experience of God — not dogma merely — is what every religion should bring to its followers
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
If you take one little step (in the spiritual direction) it's worth all the scriptures on the planet. Do it before it's too late.
Books don't need an audience, movies do.
To write a great book, you must first become the book.
Study logic and math, because once you've mastered them, you won't fear any book.
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
I do things like getting in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and sometimes they're amiable and sometimes not.
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
Of all things, I liked books best.
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who's not quite an adult/Isn't really boring.
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul.
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.
So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.
"Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.