... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
George R.R. Martin
I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
George Steiner
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
George W. Bush
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
Geraldine Brooks
Reading is reading - no matter what the material.
Giovanna Fletcher
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Günter Grass
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Guy de Maupassant
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H.P. Lovecraft
What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.
Hanya Yanagihara
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
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