#books

"The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence."

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."

"Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time."

"We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."

"Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really."

"Great books make great being."

"From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."

"Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,"she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles."

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?"asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends,"says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it."

"If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment."

"There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books."

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."