books

"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them"

"And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is."

"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world."

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives."

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them"

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."

"A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget."

"We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate."

"You is getting nosier than a parker."

"That's what this country needs -- more books!"

"My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world."

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

"The public library is where place and possibility meet."

"How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind."

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water."

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."

"Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge."

"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."