Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ~ Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~ Mark Twain
The great American novel has not only already been written,
it has already been rejected. ~ Frank Dane
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ~ Albert Camus
The closest we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
When we read a story, we inhabit it.
The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story.
And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. ~ John Berger
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape.
It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ~ Arthur Christopher Benson
A truly great book should be read in youth,
again in maturity and once more in old age,
as a fine building should be seen by morning light,
at noon and by moonlight.
~ Robertson Davies
The way a book is read- which is to say,
the qualities a reader brings to a book-
can have as much to do with its worth
as anything the author puts into it. ~ Norman Cousins
The book salesman should be honored
because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very
books we need most and neglect most. ~ Frank Crane
It was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other
way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of
their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong
hand to keep them down. ~ Agatha Christie
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