What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
Holly BlackIn fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
Eileen FavoriteTags: books beauty on-fiction fiction
For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
Eileen FavoriteA big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Mark TwainA war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: books ideas sailing ships boats
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Benjamin FranklinTags: words reading books literature illiteracy pity
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
Gary D. SchmidtI cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: reading books we-are-what-we-eat we-are-what-we-read you-are-what-you-eat you-are-what-you-read
Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...
Rebecca WellsTags: books
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Franz KafkaTags: books
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