Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Looking for Alaska

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

Little Tea Book

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Love, etc.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Lover's Gift

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

A Life In A Moment

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

The Library at Night

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

The Library at Night

I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.

The Last Novel

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Learning to Pray

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Lover Unbound

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Letters of John Wesley

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

Leaders' Watchwords

I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

Little Women

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship --Toltec Wisdom Book