“ Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true. Samuel Johnson
“ Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. Anatole France
“ All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. Richard de Bury
“ It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer. Tarang Sinha
“ How weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop. Julian Barnes
“ Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality. Pierre Bayard
“ The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them.… H.G. Wells
“ There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. Margaret Peterson Haddix
“ I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
“ I've never believed in living for the ones you love. I believe in the power of death, I'd die for the ones that I love. Anna Van Breugel
“ Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for ourselves, and overcoming doubts about our ability to receive the educatio… Ellen J. Barrier
“ I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me. Alice Munro
“ But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas that have lasted thousands of years, or just… Rick Bragg
“ Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. Sarah Van Arsdale
“ 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… Jane Austen
“ I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me. Vince Passaro
