William Saroyan Quotes

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

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 wind into the heart.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

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.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Reading is a huge part of life.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

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

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

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

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.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

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.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

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.