If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do young people discover that many aspects of life are uncertain, mysterious, and even unknowable. If...
To her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she f...
I could decorate a whole city with books!
I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound.
Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.
Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking cou...
If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom.
there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.
She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, perhaps they will fade, but for now, they're still hauntingly there reminding us of the loss and pain.
Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.
The harder you search the more troubled you become.
We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be...
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. I have kola, he announced when he sat down, and passed...
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.