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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
– Anna Quindlen

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  2. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind. – Anna Quindlen
  3. A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. – Anna Quindlen
  4. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen
  5. those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers… – Anna Quindlen
  6. So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time. – Anna Quindlen
  7. the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. – Anna Quindlen
  8. It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all. – Anna Quindlen
  9. Speech is the voice of the heart. – Anna Quindlen
  10. Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. – Anna Quindlen
  11. But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. – Anna Quindlen
  12. It’s amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn’t come true become,after a while, simply the way things are. – Anna Quindlen
  13. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. – Anna Quindlen
  14. I’ve discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing. – Anna Quindlen
  15. I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. – Anna Quindlen
  16. [she] believes our experiences and our worlds make us. I believe our choices make our experiences and our worlds. – Josephine Angelini
  17. Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read. – Lani Brown
  18. Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over. – Tom Cowan
  19. What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
  20. The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood. – Bobby Adair
  21. Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit. – Ryan Lilly
  22. Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you. – David Mitchell
  23. It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
  24. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  25. All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
  26. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  27. You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
  28. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  29. I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
  30. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
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  32. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  33. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
  34. Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
  35. Books open new worlds to me. – Aya Ling
  36. Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. – Alan Bennett
  37. I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books. – Garon Whited
  38. I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it’s enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds. – Rinsai Rossetti
  39. Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. – Jason Ellis
  40. Books pull you to other worlds … let them, and enjoy the adventure. – HB Bolton

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