I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.
A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.
Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it.
If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.
Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.
What's life without a little risk?
Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.
Reading a book is something you do to yourself.
The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
A book without words is a mind without thought.
Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some deceitful; but others are a...
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given t...
For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary beings to extraordinary ones. Often they are so appealing and intel...
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the B...
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.