Virginia Woolf Quotes

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Your library is your paradise.

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

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

I take refuge in my books.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

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

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

I absolutely love reading.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

There is no frigate like a book

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.