books

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

"It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really."

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

"A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"He fed his spirit with the bread of books"

"This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea of where any of this is going. The enemies aren't obvious. There are no guaranteed happy endings."

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

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)"

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"I cannot live without books."

"What is reading but silent conversation."

"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started because of a thumb's up I gave to Douglas Adams on his birthday as I said, "Happy 42."#OutBoastKanye"

"I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books."

"Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read."

"I even love the smell of books."