But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conque...
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
I cannot live without books.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple iden...
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allow...
Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.
And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-
Books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...