books
books
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Norwegian Wood
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
How Reading Changed My Life
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Books and You
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
The Shadow of the Wind
Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
The Prince and the Pauper
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
Sesame And Lilies
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
Between the Acts
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.
Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
The woman destroyed (Simone de Beauvoir / ISBN:0007204655)
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
The New Life