books

"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."

"Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today."

"I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true."

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

"A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies."

"How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library."

"Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck."

"In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"You can never, never have too many books"

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

"الأمر الوحيد الذي أندم عليه هو أنه لن يتسنى لي قراءة كل الكتب التي أود قرائتها."

"In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar."

"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"So many books, so little time."

"How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me."