Richard Jefferies Quotes

Every single book is a challenge.

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.