#books

"A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement."

"When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled."

"To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books."

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend."

"If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you."

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water."

"I have never been able to resist a book about books."

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."

"Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."

"Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions."

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

"Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine."

"In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar."

"This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story."

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

"What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!"

"As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author."

"Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying."

"the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility."