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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
— Donald Ray Pollock
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
The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.
— Drea Damara
Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.
— Austin Kleon
A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.
— E. Powys Mathers
The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them.
— Jonathan Auxier
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
— Ralph Fiennes
I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.
— Sarah Monette
When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place
— Alan Dapre
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
— Jonathan Swift
Words and a book and a belief that the world is words ...
— David Foster Wallace
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
— Anthony Trollope
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
— Jeff B. Davis
You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.
— Linda Lafferty
And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them.
— Ernest Hemingway,
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
— Kinky Friedman
We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.
— Meeta Ahluwalia
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
— Jeanette Winter
So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture ... and may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal you in this world.
— George Hamlin Fitch
Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.
— Meredith Wood
I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.
— Mary Gaitskill
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.
— H.E. Fairbanks
My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can't be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.
— Colleen Hoover
I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.
— Anjelica Huston
The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story. — Kate DiCamillo
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
— Oscar Hijuelos
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.
— Swami Vivekananda
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
— David Baldacci
No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home.
— William Kamkwamba
The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.
— Beth Moore Jones
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
— Mattie Stepanek
What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.
— Kate DiCamillo
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
— Alberto Manguel
The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point of reading that book?
— Kate Milford
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
— Tom Waits
We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
— Neil Gaiman
After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me.
— Caroline George
Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.
— Malorie Blackman
To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
— Gabrielle Dubois
She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.
— Frances Hardinge
Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.
— Michelle Moran
I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
— Olga Kurylenko
There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .
— Tushar Upreti
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
— Thomas Traherne
A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt
When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.
— Sufian Chaudhary
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What
— Terry Pratchett
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
— Kevin Systrom
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
— Judith Butler
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
— Patrick DeWitt
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
— George MacDonald
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
— Jeanette Winterson
I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.
— Caroline Kepnes
I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
— Leonard Cohen
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
— John Burnside
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!
— Michael Scott
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
— Lauren Oliver
If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.
— Edward Medina
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
— Malorie Blackman
I'm a book girlI love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down. — Mizuki Nomura
That once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
— Patricia A. McKillip
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
How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world.
— Lisa Kleypas
And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?
— Catherine Fisher
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
There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.
— Dennis Lehane
Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't.
— Robin Sacredfire
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
— Algernon Blackwood
