books

"I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to."

"I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day."

"My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table."

"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them"

"Writers are the exorcists of their own demons."

"No furniture is so charming as books."

"I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…"

"Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end."

"I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."( A Boy in France : Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945)"

"Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)"

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."

"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

"Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves."

"أمران سيجعلانك أكثر حكمة...الكتب التى تقرؤها والأشخاص الذين تلتقى بهم."

"The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap."

"I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level."