#books

"Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book."

"And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?"

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

"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."

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

"We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost."

"Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books."

"If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart."

"To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live"."

"These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be."

"The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important."

"I always thought it was Mo Be Dick. I know Mo, and he is a dick."

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

"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."

"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."

"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices."

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."