books

"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."

"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books."

"It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids."

"Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."

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

"Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."

"Of course I loved books more than people."

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."

"All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."

"Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book."

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!"

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."

"Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."

"So many books, so little time."