Walter Mosley Quotes

Man is what he reads.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

To start with, look at all the books.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Love of books is the best of all.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

That's what this country needs -- more books!

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Books do furnish a room.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.