#books

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love."

"The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges."

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think."

"I read in self-defense."

"What is reading but silent conversation."

"Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."

"I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning."

"I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me."

"One must always be careful of books,"said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

"One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be."

"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."