books

"You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life."

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

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

"Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most."

"... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul."

"This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends."

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."

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

"A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)"

"Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about."

"With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do."

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."