Words worth keeping

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.