“ To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to re… Lionel Barrymore
“ We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by my… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. Groucho Marx
“ Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allow… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind- Rick Riordan
“ I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it? Franz Kafka
“ Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege. Alberto Manguel
“ Throughout the history of mankind, there have been two kinds of people; those who write the books and those who burn them. The rest of us are only bystanders. M.Z.Riffi - The Queen of Granada
“ It's time for bed. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get in bed, and I don't have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books. And I know that's kind of weird and solit… Nicholson Baker
“ You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to h… Meg Medina
“ Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced… Diana Gabaldon
“ There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real… LouAnne Johnson
“ You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey,… George R.R. Martin
“ Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. Jon Krakauer
“ The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other everyday, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real… Marcel Proust
“ Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and… Barbara Kingsolver
