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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Books, Open

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Books, Dignity, Fire, Night

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

Books, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Power

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Poison, Knowledge, Power

"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Reading, Wisdom, Criticism

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

Books, Formula, Hell, Want

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

Books, Now

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Books, Metaphysics

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Books, Leisure, Knowledge, Life

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Books, End, Nothing, Study

Explore more quotes by Samuel Daniel

"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."

Love

"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."

Nature

"The stars that have most glory have no rest."

Glory

"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."

Grief

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

World

"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."

Admiration

"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."

Beauty

"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."

Man

"The wise are above books."

Books