Bible Quote by Mary Karr

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT…

— Mary Karr

We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I…

— Herta Muller

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a…

— Anthony McCarten

“Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest details of our lives, the…

— Thomas Pynchon

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

— Harper Lee

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of…

— Jonathan Raban

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along…

— Harper Lee

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could…

— Oprah Winfrey

Did people waste time before the internet existed?

— Matt McGorry

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt