Books As Gateways

Table of Contents

• Books as Portals to Other Worlds
• Books as Keys to Self-Discovery
• Books as Opened/Closed Doors
• Books and Their Impact on Life
• Other

Books as Portals to Other Worlds

There's a reason why books are shaped like doors; you open them up, they take you somewhere else. The mind is a strange place and what's inside yours might also be inside someone else's, or may overlap into another place entirely. The only way to know is to read, imagine, and follow the secrets that unfold in Anna Tizard's Deeply Weird fiction.Dip a toe. Dive in. Don’t look back.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Books are Doors and I wanted out.

Books are boring," James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.

The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books—but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of other worlds like a time bandit, or a spy. I was as excited as I’ve ever been in my life, in that library: scoring new books the minute they came in; ordering books I’d heard of—then waiting, fevered, for them to arrive, like they were the word Christmas.

Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.

Books are not really just books at all, but doorways. They are portals into places I've never been and people I'll never be.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors.

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don’t know what you’re going to find.

The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them.

Books as Keys to Self-Discovery

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then—click—a world opens.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Books are keys that open many doors – James Rollins.

Books come from within.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

Books as Opened/Closed Doors

Books open the doors that others have closed on you.

Books are opened to open some doors and to keep some closed

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run his knuckles gently over the leather and wood and buckrum of the bindings until a book should speak to him and come willingly into his hand.

The books are not a straight line to the corner office. But they're going to help you figure out where you want to go.

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It’s supposed to be a door.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.

Books and Their Impact on Life

Are there weapons in a bookstore?''It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,' Monty replied blandly.The Crows cocked his head. 'I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.

Are there weapons in a bookstore?”“It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,” Monty replied blandly.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?” said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the shelves that reached from the floor to the ceiling.“A great number, sir,” replied Oliver; “I never saw so many.”“You shall read them if you behave well,” said the old gentleman kindly; “and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides, - that is, in some cases, because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

Books to read. Bitches to push out of the door.

Maybe I'll open a bookstore," he smiled. "New and used books-- so everyone has a chance to see the world through the pages of a story.

What are books good for?”“Hitting intruders?” Nick mumbled. He rubbed his eyes again. “Doorstops. Insomnia. Special interrogation techniques. Silencing bedmates in the middle of the night.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Vlad looked around. “Are we providing shelter, or are the humans actually buying books?

Maybe I’ll open a bookstore,” he smiled. “New and used books – so everyone has a chance to see the world through the pages of a story.

I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'

Other

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

There’s always books. And the wind through trees.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Books are the windows throughwhich the soul looks out.

I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the books that were all her life.

The deathwatch asks the bookshelf's wood: may I ? Too late, it answers. I am already mellow.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Are there weapons in a bookstore?′ ‘It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,’ Monty replied blandly. The Crows cocked his head. ‘I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.

There’s a secret room?′ I ask, at the same time Rhys says, with genuine hurt, ‘There are more books I didn’t know about?

If I’m home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

I've been told there's a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, 'War and Peace,' and 'Driving Mr. Albert.'

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