No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
C.S. LewisTags: reading books age re-reading
Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.
Gloria MalletteTags: books family marriage african-american-fiction psychological-suspense
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.
Tom RobbinsTags: books
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Jesse Lee BennettBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell LowellDon't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
Charles OgdenTags: libraries books librarians
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave FlaubertTags: reading books literature bibliophile
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which are frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you...And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too.
Italo CalvinoI cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonTags: books
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