Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization wou...
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port
I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks ar...
The best boyfriends are the ones in books.
The more that you read, the more that you know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious wayto feel alive.
I only read books if Voltaire's cock has been dipped in red ink and rolled over the cover.
O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?
Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!
In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?
Little mouse, a voice said through the keyhole. Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.
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