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“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
― Samuel Butler

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

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

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
― Mark Twain

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
― James Mitchner

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

“When your heart speaks, take good notes.”
― Judith Campbell

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
― Confucius

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
― Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it”
― James Bryce

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories

“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.”
― Lorin Stein

“Good writers touch life often.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel