books

"Thank God for books and music and things I can think about."

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

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

"If I told you that my global audience has shot up 100% in the last six months, what would you say? If you were to say, “So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base."

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."

"She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self."

"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)"

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."

"My library is an archive of longings."

"In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie."

"I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day."

"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."

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

"In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed."

"You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one."

"The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence."

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

"It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you."-FitzChivalry Farseer"