books

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"If I could convert books to wine, I’d start with The Grapes of Wrath. I’ve never read it, but maybe tonight I’ll be thirsty enough."

"In Western Civilization, our elders are books."

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"Being a writer is a good, good thing."

"Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?"Whoever it was, I agree with him."

"She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page."

"Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

"After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time."

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

"Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm."

"Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read."

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

"I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning."

"great books are the ones we need"

"In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond."

"For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."