books

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes"

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved."

"Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls."

"If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?"

"if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

"I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding."

"In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed."

"If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain"

"When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead."

"It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol."

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

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

"You're never alone when you're reading a book."

"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."

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

"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"

"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."

"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."