William Wordsworth Quotes

Books are packaged dreams.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

My portal to another world was fiction.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

There is no frigate like a book

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

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.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I was curious about they'd get for me from the library. Books were a kind of a resistance to reality. I liked to imagine worlds that were different. I still do.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.