books

"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."

"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village."

"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."

"The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result."

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

"Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse."

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

"She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow"

"Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book."

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."

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

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

"To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust."

"There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't."