“ I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just express… Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be. Alan Bradley
“ And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps. Colleen Oakley
“ As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction. Michael Dirda
“ A library — a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read! Gemma Jackson
“ ...'To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.'– Ecclesiastes 12:12 Jehovah
“ In conversation we are sustained by the wisdom of those who have gone before us. We are also empowered to discern how we will face the challenges of both the present and the future. Reading is essenti… C. Christopher Smith
“ Reading is important. It’s not primarily escapism (though it can be, and there’s nothing wrong with some of that in good measure) and it’s not primarily a way of passing the time. Reading is important… Robert Wringham
“ Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the teachers I had and they all believed me. Maybe this is where the lying about books really began. Whe… Andy Miller
“ A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movie would ever do. For example, when I watched the movie “The Hours” I was fascinated by the story. Ju… Ana Claudia Antunes
“ The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty. Sarah Addison Allen
“ ...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in... Stephen King
“ Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself. Alice Hoffman
“ From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library... Alice Hoffman
“ I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as… Fernando Pessoa
