Susan Hill Quotes

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.