كل مكتبة تستحضر أشباحها المظلمة الخاصة بها، فكل ترتيب ينشئ، تلقائياً، طيف مكتبة من كتب غائبة.
Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den eine...
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime...
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or...
I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. They don't requ...
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
ليس لدي أي شعور بالذنب بشأن الكتب التي لم اقرأها وربما لن اقرأها أبداً، فأنا أعرف بأن كتبي لديها صبر لا حدود له
القراءة مثل التنفس؛انها وظيفة حياتية اساسية
أن الحاجة تجعل الأشياء تزدهر في حين أن التملك يذبلها
We can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, ca...
Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or m...
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sort...
قراءة كتاب ليست مطابقة تماماً لقراءة شاشة، مهما كان النص.
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
