“ Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obvious… Stephen Potter
“ For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives. Amy Lowell
“ To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual. Compton Gage
“ Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in… Ruth Ozeki
“ 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,… Rebecca Solnit
“ Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library Phillip Lopate
“ Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of im… Anais Nin
“ As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living ma… Miguel Serrano
“ And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity... Anais Nin
“ A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time I just want to say - Hello. We can hear you. The words survive… Caitlin Moran
“ Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other f… E. B. White
“ The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your ho… Sui Ishida
