books

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."

"Libraries raised me."

"We live for books."

"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat."

"Books may well be the only true magic."

"He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain."

"I cannot live without books."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

"If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment."

"Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."

"Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book."

"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."

"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."

"Reading is reading - no matter what the material."

"[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."

"Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.-You're just making that up, Jean."

"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."