Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

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

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.

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

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

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

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Books have always been an important part of my life.

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

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.

I cannot live without books.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.