books

"I love books, they're in my blood."

"Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity"

"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."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."

"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."

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

"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"

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

"I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?"

"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."

"The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

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

"أمران سيجعلانك أكثر حكمة...الكتب التى تقرؤها والأشخاص الذين تلتقى بهم."

"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."

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

"Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end."