Jonathan Evison Quotes

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

That's what this country needs -- more books!

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Read good, big important things.

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Love of books is the best of all.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Reading brings us unknown friends

These books are my friends, my companions.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.