Eduardo Galeano Quotes

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

I get transported when I read books.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.