books

"Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!"

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

"Even bad books are books and therefore sacred."

"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."

"Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense."

"Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering."

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

"You can cover a great deal of country in books."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

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

"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."

"Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is."

"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."

"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."

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."

"And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is."

"No furniture is so charming as books."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?"

"و من الممكن أن تمل القراءة طبيعي فعندما يمل الإنسان كل شئ تكون الكتب أول الضحايا"