Michael > Michael's Quotes

“... 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

“The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

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

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