#books

"She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page."

"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!"

"Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."

"القراءة المبالغ فيها لا تجعل منا أذكياء. بعض الناس يبتلعون الكتب, وهم يفعلون ذلك بدون فاصل للتفكير الضروري. وهو ضروري لكي يهضم المقروء ويبنى ويتبنى ويُفهم"

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."

"Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!"

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser."

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."

"My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table."

"It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd."

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

"I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book."

"She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself."

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."

"I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be."

"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."

"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."