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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

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan

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

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. — Ben Abix

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

It is the spirit of the poets that gives the soldiers strength to fight. — Casting Crowns

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. — Andre Breton

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

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

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

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

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler

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

There is nothing political about American literature. — Laura Bush

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 me
I have no others. — Thomas Bernhard

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

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

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. — C.S. Lewis

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness. — Richard Brookhiser

My life transformed by making myself a reader. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As night falls silently all around,
She carefully turns the last page. — Rachel Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

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

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

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

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

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

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

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

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

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

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

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. — Kate Atkinson

Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me. — Sara Levine

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

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

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka

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