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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
— Tom Brokaw
Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.
— Pamela Paul
The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it.
— Kate Milford
You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind!
— Latif Mercado
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures.
— Stephen King
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
We find paradise in every library and bookshop.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.
— Jim Rohn
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.
— Matthew Pearl
Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.
— Louise Fitzhugh
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
— Arlaina Tibensky
The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.
— Chloe Thurlow
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
— Stephen Chbosky
What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge.
— Sun Tzu
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
— Jane Yolen
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
— Shannon L. Alder
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
— Willa Cather
Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are my friends, my companion. They make me laugh and cry and find the meaning of life
— Christopher Paolini
If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.
— Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
— Holly Black
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.
— Lauren Barnholdt
For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.
— Jackie French
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
— Nikos Kazantzakis
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
Oh yes! I have couple-goals too. I love to couple myself with- Books, Coffee and Mountains.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
— Carla H. Krueger
If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I couldn't admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck 'em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.
— Christos Tsiolkas
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
— Enoch Powell
No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!
— Cathy Williams
I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.
— Anna Quindlen
Every story is part of a whole, entire life, you know? Happy and sad and tragic and whatever, but an entire life. And books let you know them.
— Sarah Ockler
I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
— Carla H. Krueger
Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.
— Sarah Johnson
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
— Shandy L. Kurth
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
— Deb Caletti
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
— Pat Conroy
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
— Shannon Celebi
Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.
— Aman Jassal
Her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.
— Leif Enger
I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
— Veronica Roth
Sometimes we just need a little break from this thing we call 'life', and step into the cartoon life for a moment
— Andrea L'Artiste
The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.
— Mylo Carbia
And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!
— A.A. Patawaran
I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.
— Andrew Smith
I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!
— Samuel Colbran
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [ ... ].
— Arlaina Tibensky
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
— A. Edward Newton
I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Keep moving. Don't get bogged down. Don't think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don't feel like it.
— Rick Riordan
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
— Sandra Cisneros
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
— James Salter
My love of books and ability to get buried in them while real life piles up outside the door always keeps me passive and deluded.
— Kay Dew Shostak
Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.
— David Brooks
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
— Fay Weldon
The more you read,the eager you read many more.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.
— Louise Penny
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
— Algernon Blackwood
Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
— Stephen Chbosky
Love is a book and a light to read it by.
— Peter Hubbard
Great books live longer than people.
They are gonna bury us all. — Patricia Nedelea
They are gonna bury us all. — Patricia Nedelea
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
— Will Self
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
— Plato
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
— Morrissey
I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.
— Siri Hustvedt
I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.
— Daniel Sean Kaye
Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.
— Carew Papritz
You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
— Sterling W. Sill
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
— James Weldon Johnson
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
— Francois Truffaut
I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.
— Avijeet Das
For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.
— E. M. Forster
I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.
— Avijeet Das
I buy books and tell myself that I am buying wisdom and at the end of my life, I own a house full of books.
— Ken Chen
After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me.
— Caroline George
My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
— Gabrielle Zevin
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature ...
— John Burroughs
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
— Ellen Douglas
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
— Orhan Pamuk
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
— Neil Cross
We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.
— Meeta Ahluwalia
All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.
— Henry Miller
A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person ...
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what i believe. I cannot unlive my life
— Hilary Mantel
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
— David Frum
My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me.
— Celeste Cooper