“ Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book… Scarlett Thomas
“ I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. Leonard Cohen
“ But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be… Marissa Meyer
“ I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. John Burroughs
“ Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are differen… John Steinbeck
“ Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to… Alice Hoffman
“ If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment. Joe Queenan
“ Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book:When all of us are communicating and talking when we’re out in the world, we’ll be lucky i… Junot Diaz
“ The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. Gabriel Zaid
“ Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. Gary D. Schmidt
“ Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off. Eva Rice
“ Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words. Donalyn Miller
“ I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. Kazuo Ishiguro
“ There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there i… Elias Canetti
“ It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and sudde… Naomi Shihab Nye
