With the proliferation of the internet, one might think that the simple book is slowly going the way of the Dodo bird.
But this is not the case.
Books are still the best way to live someone else’s life. They are the best way to communicate a complex idea, or create an unimaginable world.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Annie Dillard
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Maurice Sendak
When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. Erasmus
It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place. Cornelia Funke
A book is a device to ignite the imagination Alan Bennett
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. Jeffrey Eugenides
I feel happy and secure when I’m on my bed with a good book… I forget everything which is terrible in our world. Françoise Hardy
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. Mark Twain
Only your friends steal your books. Voltaire
A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. William Styron
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. J.A. Langford
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Philip Pullman
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot
A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him. Walter Mosley
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C.S. Lewis
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” Helen Exley
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. John Green
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. Edward P. Morgan
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. Dr. Seuss
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness. Susan Sontag
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. Ernest Hemingway
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. Lemony Snicket
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. Kurt Vonnegut
A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,’ a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L’Engle
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. J.A. Langford
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. Anne Lamott
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. Clarence Shepard Day
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though. J.D. Salinger
He fed his spirit with the bread of books. Edwin Markham
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. Sherman Alexie
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Harold Kushner
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. Andrew Lang
We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. Don’t sleep with people who don’t read! John Waters
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. Thomas Carlyle
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. Stephen King
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. John Green
What you don’t know would make a great book. Sydney Smith
A good book has no ending. R.D. Cumming