Words worth keeping

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.