Virginia Woolf Quotes

[Referring to political leaders:] Since they take the risks, they need the laurels.

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.

If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.