Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.
One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Su...
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soo...
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges.
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
Without story books is like a person with no soul.
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave...
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
You have to want the book enough to read it.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.
A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.