Top Books Quotes

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone,...

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No.

God is the one subject of reality. Take away the one subject and there is nothing real.

Loneliness is your only companion.

Only dead surpasses the sufferings

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert...

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.