books

"You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book."

"I thought... that we could at least talk about books."

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you."

"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."

"و من الممكن أن تمل القراءة طبيعي فعندما يمل الإنسان كل شئ تكون الكتب أول الضحايا"

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

"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."

"Always buy pornographic books in hardback because they're easier to hold with one hand."

"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."

"After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time."

"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."

"Remember, the past need not become our future as well."

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

"A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear."