books

"Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book."

"When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life."

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

"My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy."

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started because of a thumb's up I gave to Douglas Adams on his birthday as I said, "Happy 42."#OutBoastKanye"

"I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs."

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

"It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you."-FitzChivalry Farseer"

"Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself."

"I love books, they're in my blood."

"As always, one of her books was next to her."

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians."

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."

"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."