Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile.
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
To read is to renew thy mind.
THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away...
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)
The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe...
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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,...
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
It is odd, isn’t it? Whenever I read something interesting, I tear out a piece and keep it as a talisman until I find something new to replace it with. It’s a sort of superstition. I did it once and i...
In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes,...
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.