#books

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

"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."

"I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"The world exists to end up in a book."

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"Nobody steals books but your friends."

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

"Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare."

"...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page."

"Books are a narcotic."

"I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody."

"...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."

"A good book has no ending."

"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it"

"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it."