books

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."

"There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different."

"Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!"

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"If I told you that my global audience has shot up 100% in the last six months, what would you say? If you were to say, “So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base."

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."

"Books are the most tolerant of friends."

"Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth."

"I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both."

"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."

"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."

"There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book."

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."

"We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books."

"I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys."

"They're book addicts."

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."