3,439 Quotes About Words

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Wishes are just made up words for the stars.

Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters even–caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

We hold amazing power in our words.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

La televisión nunca le gustó porque no tenía poder de sugestión. Porque las imágenes, que son unívocas, no le encendían, como las palabras, la imaginación.

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act.