World of Books and Travel

1. A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. –William Styron In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. –Oscar Wilde Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. –George Bernard Shaw Some books leave us free and some books make us free. –Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. –J.K. Rowling A good book has no ending. –R.D. Cumming

1. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. –Haruki Murakami 2. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. –Maya Angelou 3. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. –Salman Rushdie 4. I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold Kushner 5. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. –Marcel Proust