Books Quote by M.J. Murphy

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such…

— Anonymous

“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under a lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people…

— Yoshida Kenko

“My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“The book and I secret ourselves Behind the paneled door. We merge our thoughts in retrospect Of ancient mystic lore. We spend a pleasant…

— Edna Moore Schultz

“The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.”

— Steve Centola

“when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light”

— Vera Nazarian

“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might…

— Antonio Muñoz Molina

“You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts; expose and…

— israelmore ayivor

“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence”

— Marcel Proust

“We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a…

— Brenda Walker

“Under the warm light cast by the reading lamp, I was submerged into a new world of images and sensations peopled by characters who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship…

— Robert Louis Stevenson