Doris Lessing Quote

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowled...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Libraries raised me.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.