books

"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal"

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

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

"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

"Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food."

"My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love."

"Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica."

"It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place"

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."

"Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?"Whoever it was, I agree with him."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."

"Being a writer is a good, good thing."

"I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised."

"Computers don't kill books; people do."

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

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot."

"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."