books

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

"Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read."

"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."

"I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."

"Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."

"Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly"

"If I could convert books to wine, I’d start with The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve never read it, but maybe tonight I’ll be thirsty enough."

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."

"Where should I go?"-Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up."- The Cheshire Cat."

"An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys."

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

"The world must be all fucked up,"he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"

"And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun."

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."

"We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."

"The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap."

"Human sympathy has its limits."