Divination Quote by Marilyn Johnson

“Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.”

— Marilyn Johnson

“Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. ”

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…

— Alberto Manguel

“I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

— George Henry Lewes

“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more…

— Edith Wharton

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an…

— Hugh Walpole

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with…

— José Borges

“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of:”

— Marcus Aurelius

“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver…

— Pamela Glass Kelly