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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

Books contain a special magic. Letters and words - side by side - able to speak and sing to us.
This allows the reader to enter the story. — Jason Ellis

We live and breathe words. — Cassandra Clare

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words. — Amy Lowell

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

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words. — Andy Miller

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

Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. — Alice Hoffman

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

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

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books. — Michelle Moran

I live within the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. — Lisa See

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. — Anita Brookner

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

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. — Jeffery Deaver

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