“ You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded, so you are willing to argue, to… Sandor Maraï
“ We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into words our most intimate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a co… Alberto Manguel
“ Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the e… Jorge Luis Borges
“ This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. Michael Ondaatje
“ No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, f… Andre Gide
“ In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or a… Helen Keller
“ So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into t… Marc Acito
“ By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped… Rebecca Mead
“ The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others. Thomas Bernhard
“ I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soo… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. John Burroughs
“ There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there i… Elias Canetti
“ Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out… Orhan Pamuk
“ I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. Wislawa Szymborska
“ The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. Rene Descartes
“ How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is… Elena Ferrante
“ Words bite. They hurt more than physical blows. External hurt disappears after some time but the wounds that words leave linger on and on. It’s very difficult to erase them from your heart- some cruel… Latika Teotia
