#books

"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."

"Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous."

"A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."

"Good books are about everything."

"I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."

"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you."

"anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me..."

"I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books."

"Books are the most tolerant of friends."

"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

"Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel."

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

"Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself."

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."

"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."

"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."