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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.
— Paul Theroux
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
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
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
— Nick Hornby
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
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
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
I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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