I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Books were already a familiar refuge, after all, and they still took me in without the slightest judgment. They don’t cl — Carolina De Robertis, Perla

Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have ye — E.L. Konigsburg, Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a s — Nadun Lokuliyanage

Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings — John Erskine, The Delight of Great Books

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them. — Jazmin Anguiano

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acqu — Linda Buckley-Archer, Gideon the Cutpurse

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go... — Carmen DeSousa

Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters — Sophie Dash, To Wed a Rebel

There is no greater companion like books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

$In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of e — Edward Bunker, The Animal Factory$

I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books. — Jim Harrison, Braided Creek

We encounter many sacred souls while reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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