books

"′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read."

"Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about."

"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."

"Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."

"A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old."

"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."

"There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured."

"Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

"Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg."

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

"All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time."

"I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900."

"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"

"Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

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

"Only five books tonight, Mommy,"she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!"

"Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"