My life is surround by books.

But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall…

— Ramona Koval

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

— John Wooden

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

— Roy Bennett

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

— Timothy D. Snyder

“Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.”

— Austin Kleon

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

— Maryrose Wood

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen