Chinua Achebe Quotes

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

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.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

I like to discover new things.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Libraries raised me.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.