"A classic is something everybody wants to have read, but no one wants to read"

Mark Twain

Read, read, read. Read everything...

William Faulkner

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. 

Rose Macaulay

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. 

Charles de Montesquieu

"I guess there are never enough books." 

- John Steinbeck

Happy Friday 13th!! xo

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really 

happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all 

happened to you and after which it all belongs to you." 

- Hemingway

'If I could read continually, I should feel no want for society.' Byron

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. 

Life is the other way around." 

David Lodge

"A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years." 

Thomas Jefferson

 A good book has no ending. -R.D. Cumming

"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us 

that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt 

in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins" Charles Lamb

"Every man who knows how to read 

has it in his power to magnify himself; 

to multiply the ways in which he exists; 

to make his life full, significant, and interesting"

Aldous Huxley

This photo was taken in Madrid Jan 2012 at the Museo Reina Sofia Library

"The great thing is to be always reading but not to get bored - treat it not like work, more as a vice! Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance." - C.S. Lewis

Photo taken in Madrid Jan 2012

"I cannot live without books" 

A quote from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams in 1815

This photo was taken in Madrid in January 2012. 

I think for April I will have a book pictures with book quotes theme...