"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read books."
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars |
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one ties of anything but a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall miserable if I have not an excellent library." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a books long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis
"You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm."
- Barbara Kingsolver |
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." - Oscar Wilde
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
- William Styron "Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party."
- Jacqueline Emerson |
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” - Charles William Eliot
"You cannot open a book without learning something." - Confucius
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