books

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

"Books are the most tolerant of friends."

"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page."

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

"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."

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."

"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat."

"Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."

"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

"There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature."

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

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."-Anne Shirley"

"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."