Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.
It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.
Book lovers never go to bed alone.
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
Literature is news that stays news.
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever a...
how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.
The Bible is the best motivational book.
The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.
Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty...
Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!
I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.
He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.