“ School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the cov… Craig Ferguson
“ I just love the way those old-time authors like Mr. Dickens or George Eliot (who was actually a woman, in case you didn’t know) stop smack-dab in the middle of the story and say stuff like, patient re… Kathryn Lasky
“ I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the mu… W. Somerset Maugham
“ Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm… Virginia Woolf
“ Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be flighty and inconsequential. The truth should be… Alain de Botton
“ Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
“ Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don't know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them I ever wi… Marilynne Robinson
“ I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others Stanley Victor Paskavci
“ For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Herman Melville
“ There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable. Anne Lamott
“ Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life. Eustace Conway
“ There are so many wonderful places created in my mind simply from the books I have read, I have been transported to some unforgettable, magic places but there are so many more I wish to visit and so l… Roxie Hibberd (Smith ) ME
“ The night I sat down to read Dostoievski for the first time was a most important event in my life, even more important than my first love. It was the first deliberate, conscious act which had signific… Henry Miller Shreve
“ There are books written to be read.There are books written to be sold.The first ones have the soul and lessons you need.The second ones are just plain, empty, and cold. Alexandr Iscenco
“ The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another. Kira Hawke
“ 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. Jen Golembiewski
“ One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
