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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
— Henry David Thoreau
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
— Alberto Manguel
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing
— Cynthia Kadohata
These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.
— Stefanos Livos
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
— Richard J. Foster
You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet. — Holly Black
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery
Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
— Irvine Welsh
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
— Gustave Flaubert
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
— Jamie L. Harding
Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we? — Holly Black
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
— Dejan Stojanovic
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
— P.G. Wodehouse
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
— Charles Frahman
A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
— Elliot Ackerman
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
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
— Lois Lowry
A good book is an event in my life.
— Stendhal
The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.
— Stephanie Lovett Stoffel
No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?
— Jonathan Harnisch
Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.
— Marie Sabine Roger
There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
— Holly Black
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
— Gaston Bachelard
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.
— John Raptor
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
— Christopher Hitchens
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
— Roger Ebert
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
— Ross Macdonald
That night, as the stars sparkled in the sky, Polly dreamed...
— Brian Maunder
Every day, our kids are faced with obstacles in their way. As parents we need to teach them how to get up and Keep Going.
— Mayra A. Diaz
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
— Jasper Fforde
There are no winners in real games.
— Dejan Stojanovic
