#books

"Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves."

"What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?"

"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."

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."

"In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian."

"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."

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

"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."

"I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?"

"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."

"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)"

"Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness."

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

"She reads a lot of books. Good things, books."

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."