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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
— Christopher Paolini
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
— Cynthia Ozick
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.
— Roger Lea MacBride
Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it
— Samuel L. Jackson
To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.
— Emilyann Girdner
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
— Neil Gaiman
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
— Anamika Mishra
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
— Santosh Kalwar
Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.
— Alice Hoffman
I spent my life in the library reading books.
— Michael Caine
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
— Camille Paglia
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
— Claire Tomalin
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
— Patti Smith
Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.
— Matthew Pearl
Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.
— Jordan Urtso
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
— Dalton Trumbo
I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.
— Jenim Dibie
We exist in the world of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.
— Jen Naumann
Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.
— Chloe Thurlow
Sometimes life is like that, you know. It smacksus when we're down. The brave get back up. At least, they do in the
books. — Shannon Lee Alexander
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
— Joyce Carol Oates
If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.
— Saleem Sharma
It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.
— Christopher Morley
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
— Gail Carson Levine
I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.
— Alyse M. Gardner
In water, like in books - you can leave your life.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
— Jacqueline Kelly
Seek to engage yourself in passionate reading.You will gain better understanding of life . — Lailah Gifty Akita
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
— Jamie L. Harding
What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Everything is in you, Sad, Joy, Mercy... Those you think of, you feel... when you feel, you act... So be wise in thinking.... — Giridhar Alwar
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important.
— Cynthia Rylant
In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!
— Deyth Banger
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
— James Salter
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.
— Maureen Corrigan
My love of books and ability to get buried in them while real life piles up outside the door always keeps me passive and deluded.
— Kay Dew Shostak
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
— Philip Roth
A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person ...
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I suppose books are my real passion in life.
— John Boyne
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
— Gabrielle Zevin
The library - the place in my life that was full of books - beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.
— Scott Douglas
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.[Afterword] — Michael Chabon
Daily Bible reading, path of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.
— Veronica Roth
Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.
— Jennifer Ball
Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.
— Harlan Ellison
I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.
— Siri Hustvedt
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it
— Jean Anouilh
Human nature in time is engraved in history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.
— Walter Dean Myers
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
We can find the answers will seek in books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
— Mohsin Hamid
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
— Elin Hilderbrand
In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.
— Aaron Starmer
In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.
— Ken Donaldson
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
— Patrick O'Brian
Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life?
— Lisa Kleypas
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
— Joe Queenan
The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel.
— Virginia Woolf
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
— Emma Thompson
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.
— Rob Zombie
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
— Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
— Robertson Davies
There are books ... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.
— David Brooks
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her life.
— Markus Zusak
You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.
— Saleem Sharma
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
— Edward Abbey
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
— Sandra Cisneros
