#boo

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. ↗

— Maureen Corrigan

#people #reading #alone

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#reading #truth #read

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#old-books #reading #read

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #fame #independent-thought #judgment #opinions

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#books #guess #i #living #make

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #awe #been #book #books

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#began #book #came #certainly #combine

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#i #know #still #taboo #why

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. ↗

— Howard Aiken

#computers #education #everything #i #out