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Books make the best ersatz friendships. — Nenia Campbell

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

We live and breathe words. — Cassandra Clare

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

In those days, there was no money to buy books. — Ernest Hemingway,

Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless. — Anita Valle

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child

Books make the soul float. — Alan Bradley

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! — Gabrielle Dubois

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is. — Danny Tyran

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp. — Deb Caletti

Never underestimate the power of giving a book! — Carmela Dutra

Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers. — Rachel Heffington

A life without books is empty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. — Pandora Gray

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them. — John Mark Reynolds

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to. — Ruth Rendell

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

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive. — V.C. Andrews

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. — Nelson Mandela

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae. — Erri De Luca

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

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books. — Ned Vizzini

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. — Benedict Cumberbatch

People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it. — Andrea L'Artiste

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. — Laurence J. Peter

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. — James Jeffrey Roche

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. — James Patterson

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac

There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit. — Amber Sparks

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real. — Heather James

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. — Carmela Dutra

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little — Voltaire

Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books. — Paul Theroux

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas

You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W. Sill

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus

It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages. — Sara Shepard

They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything. — Rainbow Rowell

Every book is a world. — Gabrielle Zevin

And books -- she swallows like dumplings. — Sholem Aleichem

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. — John Lothrop Motley

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. — Mary Ann Shaffer

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry

I am a machine condemned to devour books. — Karl Marx

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche

However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach. — Peter Turchi

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

Ooks look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range. — Garth Nix

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' — Vikram Seth

Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity. — Amit Ray

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

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

I need to experience books, not just read them. — Lauren Morrill

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson

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

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse. — Andrew Piper

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful. — Diana S. Zimmerman

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. — Murray Pura

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard