books

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't."

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

"I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself."

"Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head."

"Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.-You're just making that up, Jean."

"Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."

"A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book."

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books."

"We live for books."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands."

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

"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."

"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'?"

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

"There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."