books

"The problem with books is that they end."

"Woe be to him that reads but one book."

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."

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

"My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"My grandfather says that's what books are for,"Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"We owe it to each other to tell stories."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."

"Well, you're expelling us aren't you?"said Ron."Not today, Mr. Weasley."Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled."

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."

"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."

"You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line."

"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."

"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."