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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Take my books away, and I should be desperate!
— Emily Bronte
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
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
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
— Virginia Woolf
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
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
— Fernando Pessoa
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
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
— Harold Bloom
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
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
— Andre Breton
What you read when you don't have to ...
— Oscar Wilde
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
— Jamie L. Harding
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery
Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
— Irvine Welsh
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
— Gustave Flaubert
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
— Jamie L. Harding
Reading is for pleasure; it's not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it.
— Heather Reyes
Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76
— Anita Brookner
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
— Katherine Paterson
To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.
— X.J. Kennedy
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
— John Adams
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
— David Foster Wallace
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
— Diane Setterfield
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
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
— Ross Macdonald
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
— Gilbert Murray
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to meI have no others. — Thomas Bernhard
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
— Pamela Dean
Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
— Richard Brookhiser
My life transformed by making myself a reader.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.
— Gregory Benford
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
Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.
— Jason Ellis
Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"~Vianka Van Bokkem — Vianka Van Bokkem
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
— Nicole Krauss
Literature is my Utopia
— Helen Keller
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
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
— Terry Hayes
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
Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.
— Anthony Burgess
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
— John Mark Reynolds
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,
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
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
— Roman Payne
Life happened because I turned the pages.
— Alberto Manguel
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.
— Michael Hastings
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
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
— Becky Watson
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
— Julia Glass
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
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
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
— Susan Sontag
Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
— Jonathan Ames
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
— James Branch Cabell
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
— Vladimir Nabokov
Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Read good books to improve your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.
— Brandi L. Bates
Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
— Alexander Theroux
Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar.
— Terry Tempest Williams