#books

"if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."

"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

"That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do."

"There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different."

"Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam"

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out."

"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do."

"The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are."

"I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,An open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.While on the shop and street I gazedMy body of a sudden blazed;And twenty minutes more or lessIt seemed, so great my happiness,That I was blessed and could bless."

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep"

"I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

"It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really."

"I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…"

"Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end."