books

"The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap."

"How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?"

"What better place to kill time than a library?"

"Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!"

"In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader."

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,An open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.While on the shop and street I gazedMy body of a sudden blazed;And twenty minutes more or lessIt seemed, so great my happiness,That I was blessed and could bless."

"Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."

"Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page."

"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you."

"It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you."-FitzChivalry Farseer"

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

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

"We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]"

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it"

"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."