Americans Quote by Thomas Geoghegan

“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a part.”

— Anonymous

“Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not…

— William Henry Channing

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world…

— Ray Bradbury

“The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— Old Smell of Books

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Books have a world all their own ”

— Madeline

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own.”

— Kiera Cass

“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they…

— David Hume

“Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages lives my…

— Sherry D. Ficklin