books

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."

"No furniture is so charming as books."

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling."

"The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more."

"He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain."

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

"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us."

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."

"Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words."

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?"

"I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true."

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is."