Home is where your books are.
Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair,...
I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
Books are a narcotic.
As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar...
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
My books are friends that never fai
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamond...
Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall bookcases crammed with history, poetry, theology, antiquated anthologies. There was no open wall spac...
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
more to be a human being with
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another...
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself a...
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Libraries raised me.
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