You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool'.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.