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I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
— Kerry Greenwood
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
— Robertson Davies
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
We live and breathe words.
— Cassandra Clare
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
— Terry Pratchett
I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.
— Jenim Dibie
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of This is me!
— Nick Hornby
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
— Hermann Hesse
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
— Pai Kit Fai
What would I have done without books?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
— Annie Dillard
I need words and print ... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
— Margaret Drabble
A book without words is a mind without thought.
— Catherine Forbes
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.
— Herman Wouk
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.
— Rachel Caine
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
— Alberto Manguel
I live within the world of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
— Denise Fleming
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE!
— Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.
— Ksenia Anske
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
— Morrissey
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
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Life happened because I turned the pages.
— Alberto Manguel