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Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.


Elif Shafak

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ALBERTO MANGUEL I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people b...
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LAUREN DESTEFANO Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find ...
ADAM SMITH We are constantly checking our circulation system database which tells us who the books are issued t...
DEB BEISELL It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, auth...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, au...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
CARLA H. KRUEGER One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't think the Las Vegas books are really significant to us anymore. I know we don't look at them...
CALVIN AYRE Read books. They are good for us.
NATALIE GOLDBERG Books walk us through other people's minds.
MARIANA FULGER Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just pu...
JACK GANTOS We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind...
SAMANTHA HARVEY It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The Big Book of Easy Suppers
CHRONICLE BOOKS Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery
CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology
CHRONICLE BOOKS Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time ...
EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
BILLY GRAHAM For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.
BEN SCHOTT Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
JEREMY COLLIER I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...
E. M. FORSTER The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little fart...
E. M. FORSTER Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The second thing that they agreed to is to give us what amounted to an open books promise, so that w...
STEWART BAKER The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or tho...
ALAIN DE BOTTON We give away free books. People can't believe that they're free, but it represents us as being a fre...
DAWN LLOYD We'll be here selling books and, if you support us, we'll be here for another 50 years.
CLARK KEPLER The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's lif...
KATHERINE PATTERSON Four of us work year-round sorting books, pricing them and getting them organized. And most of the b...
JOSEPHINE FIDLER The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VOLTAIRE Just because we have 30 students in a course doesn't mean we'll sell 30 books. It's going to affect ...
JACK VAUGHN Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.
MARGARITA ENGLE Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and hap...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN This book made me feel strangely awkward, because I'm afraid of finding my own story in it. I take b...
HéLèNE BERR Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
ANNIE BARROWS Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKA Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. M...
JANE SIBERRY Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing t...
BRUCE JACKSON Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus...
ROBERT HARRIS For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
JOHN UPDIKE I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. BISSINGER Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, ...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, t...
TERRY PRATCHETT I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ...
JOSHUA ISARD I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected of...
AL SHARPTON We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w...
CORY DOCTOROW I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentia...
ALAIN DE BOTTON ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA Books are special -- they communicate with us directly, ... movies are made by a bunch of people for...
EMILIE GRIFFIN We're basing our negotiation on what the company is providing us. We're continually monitoring the b...
GEORGE PRICE We're basing our negotiation on what the company is providing us, ... We're continually monitoring t...
GEORGE PRICE Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they writ...
JULIAN GREEN In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books...
BRIAN WHITE The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS Save this gift given to us.
EILEEN ANGLIN Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. ...
GEORGE STEINER The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason...
US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ...
US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t...
US CONSTITUTION They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was be...
DYAN CANNON People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know,...
JOHN SCALZI Amazon sends us an e-mail, and we send the books directly to the customer.
DAVE CRAIG Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."
HELEN EXLEY Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
HELEN EXLEY Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
URSULA K. LE GUIN “Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
ZAMAN ALI Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilization.
ZAMAN ALI Harry Potter changed everything. It's this juggernaut that is bigger than anything else out there, a...
KRISTIN MATTHEWS I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't ch...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
JACKSON PEARCE For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s...
C.S. LEWIS While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote th...
OCTAVIA BUTLER I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra...
WALTER DEAN MYERS Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchc...
NEIL GAIMAN I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doe...
FRANZ KAFKA I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, af...
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