books

"What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud."

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

"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."

"And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?"

"Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list."

"A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul."

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider."

"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

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

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one."

"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."

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

"What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!"

"This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man."

"I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."( A Boy in France : Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945)"

"Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls."

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner."