Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present,...
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not ch...
Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they may not only immortalize you, but also grant you superpowers.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
Reading sparks writing.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
The world of books captured my heart.
He fed his spirit with the bread of books
Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writer...
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a co...
You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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