#book

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book. ↗

— Robert Goolrick

#reading #love

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eragon #good-reads #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. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #life

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#power #life

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#reading #love

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #been #book #chapter #deal

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#any #book #car #environment #good

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#funny #funny

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting