Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
The love I knew was from books..
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he begins a book.
Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn or two that I didn't see coming, or which came earlier than I expected it to, o...
Reading sparks writing.
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.
A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.
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.
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.
Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!
The best and most exciting kind of love is the one that's so close to the heart and so real in the mind yet, truly never exists in reality -- it keeps the heart young and the mind believing!
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.