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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world. — Donald Ray Pollock

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world. — Roger Lea MacBride

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world. — Drea Damara

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. — Miguel De Cervantes

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books. — Drea Damara

Paris is Rory without Lorelai's influence to draw her out of her books and into the wider world. — Jennifer Crusie

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — Augustine Of Hippo

Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world. — Austin Kleon

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world. — Trudy Wallis

A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. — E. Powys Mathers

The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them. — Jonathan Auxier

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities. — Charlaine Harris

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. — Ralph Fiennes

When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place — Alan Dapre

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more. — Jonathan Swift

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words ... — David Foster Wallace

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. — Zora Neale Hurston

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia. — Ed Bradley

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

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not. — James Frey

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books. — Charlotte Dacre

All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. — Seth Godin

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis

You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines. — Linda Lafferty

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them. — Ernest Hemingway,

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. — Kinky Friedman

Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. — Michelle Moran

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me. — Caroline George

Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous. — Malorie Blackman

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot. — Gabrielle Dubois

There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly. — Warren Ellis

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil ... my next The Opposite Of Magic. — Ivan Stoikov

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. — Michael Dirda

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world. — Olga Kurylenko

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? — Thomas Traherne

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy. — Jim Crace

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries. — Neil Gaiman

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit. — Jeanette Winter

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to. — Swami Vivekananda

Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world. — Haruki Murakami

Any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point of reading that book? — Kate Milford

I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. — Herman Melville

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future. — Tucker Max

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. — Alberto Manguel

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. — Laurence Housman

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun. — Kate DiCamillo

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek

No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home. — William Kamkwamba

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. — Avijeet Das

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever. — Beth Moore Jones

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. — Robert Green Ingersoll

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so. — Alexander McCall Smith

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it. — Sufian Chaudhary

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau

Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What — Terry Pratchett

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books. — Lance Olsen

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ... — H.G.Wells

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson

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

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read. — Kevin Systrom

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by — Alison Weir

A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear. — Patrick DeWitt

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. — Jeanette Winterson

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time. — Caroline Kepnes

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. — Leonard Cohen

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

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world. — John Burnside

Read a lot of books and try a lot of recipes," Jia said. "When you learn enough about the world, even a blade of grass can be a weapon. — Ken Liu

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. — Edward Medina

So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture ... and may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal you in this world. — George Hamlin Fitch

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world. — Mary Gaitskill

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community. — Aaron Swartz

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story. — Malorie Blackman

Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive. — H.E. Fairbanks

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can't be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters. — Colleen Hoover

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story. — Kate DiCamillo

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. — Maureen Corrigan

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. — Dave Eggers

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. — Lauren Oliver

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways. — Meredith Wood

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open. — David Lubar

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. — Oscar Hijuelos

I'm a book girl
I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down. — Mizuki Nomura

Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. — Betty Smith

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world! — Michael Scott

How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world. — Lisa Kleypas

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important. — Cynthia Rylant

Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't. — Robin Sacredfire

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings. — Algernon Blackwood