Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Books do furnish a room.

I love my books.

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

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

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

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

All bookshelves are magical.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

Books may well be the only true magic.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books, the children of the brain.

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

If you have a book, you have a friend.