To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live".
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open...
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.
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 favourite book.
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.
'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.
Don't judge a book by its movie.
Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
The greatest treasures are books.
I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.
When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...
A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks.