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Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Goethe
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Anoynomous
Don't judge a book by its movie.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Karin Slaughter
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Jorge Luis Borges
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

Patricia Reilly Giff
If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

Victor LaValle
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

Astrid Yrigollen His Black Wings
There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles,...

Eliza Granville Gretel and the...
Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams... ..their demons

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books....

Lauren DeStefano Sever
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.

The First Book...

Rita Dove On the Bus With...
The First Book
Open it. Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

Lailah Gifty Akita
Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast; who plead for love, and look for recompense, more than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what...

William Shakespeare Shakespeare's...
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast; who plead for love, and look for recompense, more than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

I have traveled to sacred places through the pages of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita
I have traveled to sacred places through the pages of books.

I do not mind sleepless nights to be involved in reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita Think Great: Be...
I do not mind sleepless nights to be involved in reading.

Finding one's place in the world is never easy. Have courage and be true to who you are. Remember, those who dare to be different are often the ones who change the world.

Christopher Paolini
Finding one's place in the world is never easy. Have courage and be true to who you are. Remember, those who dare to be different are often the ones who change the world.

Can you imagine life without a book?

Lailah Gifty Akita
Can you imagine life without a book?

When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?

Richelle E. Goodrich Slaying Dragons
When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?

She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange,...

Molly Ringwald When it Happens...
She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.

More people are finding satisfaction in wealth, but real wealth is knowledge; knowledge is organized in books, and books are available in the libraries.

Abid Hussain Library Officer
More people are finding satisfaction in wealth, but real wealth is knowledge; knowledge is organized in books, and books are available in the libraries.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

Lisa Bu
Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Midnight...
Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

The art of not reading is a very important one. [...] You should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. – A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones:...

Arthur Schopenhauer
The art of not reading is a very important one. [...] You should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. – A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short.

I cannot live without reading.

Aidan Chambers This is All: The...
I cannot live without reading.

"You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' 'We can't both be Alexander.' 'Well sometimes I think you're two sides of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.'"

Orson Scott Card
"You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' 'We can't both be Alexander.' 'Well sometimes I think you're two sides of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.'"

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Austin Phelps
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I love books, they're in my blood.

Karen Marie Moning Shadowfever
I love books, they're in my blood.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of...

Neil Gaiman
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Laurence J. Peter
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Isaac Asimov
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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