Margaret Walker Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

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 are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

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.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

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

I cannot live without books.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

My passion for books has changed my life.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

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.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

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