Ember Air > Ember Air's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play