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He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
— Hanya Yanagihara
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
— Alberto Manguel
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
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
— Gabrielle Zevin
The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.
— Khaled Talib
We live and breathe words.
— Cassandra Clare
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
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
— Guy De Maupassant
Words and a book and a belief that the world is words ...
— David Foster Wallace
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.
— Malala Yousafzai
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
— Hermann Hesse
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
— Sharon M. Draper
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
— Pai Kit Fai
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
— Cassandra Clare
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk
— Susan Pace-Koch
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.
— David Sedaris
I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real.
— Andrew Smith
Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;
— Aldous Huxley
Books aren't just made of words... they're also filled with places to visit and people to meet.
— Anonymous
Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
— Doctrine And Covenants 88 118
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 jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
— Immortal Technique
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
— Jose Luis Borges
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.
— Peter H. Reynolds
I loved words that filled your mouth, and sounded as if you were used to books.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
— Jennifer Donnelly
She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.
— Frances Hardinge
Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
— Peggy A. Borel
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
— Charles De Lint
She jumped off my bed and shoved my stack of books over; thousands of words crashed onto the floor.
— Maggie Stiefvater
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
— Jenim Dibie
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
— Samuel Butler
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
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable.
— Nina Sankovitch
We are the books we read and the things we love.
— Cath Crowley
There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words ...
— Lindsay Eland
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
— Markus Zusak
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
— Morrissey
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
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
— Denise Fleming
I need words and print ... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
— Margaret Drabble
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
— Dave Barry
Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words. — CLAMP
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
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
— Herman Melville
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
— Betsy Byars
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
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be?
— Erika Swyler
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.
— Herman Wouk
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
— Terry Pratchett
Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear.
— Sofia Samatar
