Books Quote by Charles Cumming

“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do…

— Dee Williams

“... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years…

— James Herriot

“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…

— Gustave Le Bon

“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It will always…

— Loretta Lost

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

“Life's book is hard to understand; Why couldst thou not remain at school?”

— Charles Hanson Towne

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”

— Anthon St. Maarten