“ I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an… Sophie Divry
“ This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it f… Laura Nowlin
“ There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading. Spencer Gordon
“ You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he treasur… Jamie Craig
“ Sometimes when Rose was reading, she would catch a whiff of the musty smell of her book. She put her nose down in the fold and inhaled deeply so that wonderful smell, the smell of adventure in faraway… Roger Lea MacBride
“ This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae. Erri De Luca
“ Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau Leo Tolstoy
“ Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Th… Alfred Whitney Griswold
“ You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right? Dave Eggers
“ When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things. Vishwas Mudagal
“ There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal.... Martin Edwards
“ A snipit from my PR people:“A British author has revealed how he risked his life to infiltrate the Taliban while researching his new book on religious terrorism. Cal Sawar came face-to-face with Al-Qa… Palamedia Public Relations on me my book
“ The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. Henry David Thoreau
“ Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up. Tessa Maurer
“ A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose nam… Marcel Proust
“ I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books. Robin Sloan
“ While we are living, our lives are like that of an open book, still being written. Eventually, our book closes for us, and to others, it will be as if we never existed at all. Those of us who write do… Nina Jean Slack
