لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان

ان الناس لاتعرف ان كتابا واحدا كفيل بان يغير مجرى حياة الانسان.

after having had contact with students for so many years, I think it's a lot harder to change somebody's life than people think. People will say they've been changed, but what they really mean is they read something which crystallized an awful lot of things they were already feeling. I don't think books really change people's minds very often; I think that's awfully rare.

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

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.

The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.

But books meant so much for him he forgot that they were a bewilderment to others.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was.

Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In the time she was reading it, her life would be rewritten.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...