George R. R. Martin Quotes

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Read books. They are good for us.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Reading is a huge part of life.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.