books

"What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul."

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."

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

"My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world."

"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."

"لو سُئلت :ماالذي تتمنى أن تشربه دون أن تفيق ؟، لقلت : عصير الكتب ، خلاصة الفكر ، مسحوق الفلسفة"

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."

"But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress."

"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."

"A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

"She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"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."

"You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."