I have my books. I don't live in the actual world.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

— Nhat Hanh

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

— James Joyce

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough…

— Eugene Ionesco

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

— Ray Bradbury

“I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.”

— Will Schwalbe

“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and…

— David Denby

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

Closed books don't open the mind.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

— David Mitchell

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

— Gabrielle Zevin