3,439 Quotes About Words

We live and breathe words.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

Words don't fly on their own; it is action that gives wings to the imagination.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.