A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way

Quote by Caroline Gordon

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We do not judge great art. It judges us.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in...

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be...

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be...

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy...

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy...

The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the...

The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the...

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and...

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and...

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and...

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and...

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than...

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

A teacher is better than two books.

A teacher is better than two books.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the...

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his...

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his...

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life...

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life...