books

"Of course I loved books more than people."

"....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life."

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

"I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty."

"Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers."

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages..."

"No furniture is so charming as books."

"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"

"May the odds be ever in your favor!"

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

"A good book is an event in my life."

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

"I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

"I wrote an edible cookbook. The pages are made out of tortillas. It’s also the Book of Love. (Batteries and hot sauce sold separately.)"

"A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it."

"There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book."