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Take my books away, and I should be desperate! — Emily Bronte

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

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more. — Anthea Syrokou

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future. — Joshua Rogers

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. — Siri Hustvedt

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. — Margaret Atwood

In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself ... I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see. — C.S. Lewis

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life. — Arlaina Tibensky

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost. — Anthony Esolen

Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.

--"My Confession — Zoe S. Roy

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort. — Jamie L. Harding

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. — Sylvia Plath

Literature gives great light and great life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson

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

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. — F.R. Leavis

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art. — Joseph Campbell

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. — Stephen R. Covey

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. — Gabrielle Zevin

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read. — Terry Hayes

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. — Grace Paley

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. — Anne Michaels

Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more. — Jennifer A. Marshall

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it. — Rabih Alameddine

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath

At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. — Lisel Mueller

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

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

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak

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

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. — Annie Dillard

What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday. — John Mark Reynolds

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. — Tom Spanbauer

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. — Jason Ellis

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. — Anne Bronte

To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins) — Elizabeth Spencer

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams

Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"

~Vianka Van Bokkem — Vianka Van Bokkem

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. — George Gissing

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?. — Anthony Burgess

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. — Joshua Rogers

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone. — David Shields

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. — Thomas A Kempis