#books

"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat."

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."

"The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books."

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it."

"I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it."

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

"Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea of where any of this is going. The enemies aren't obvious. There are no guaranteed happy endings."

"Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

"My hands could be considered deadly weapons. You see, I write with both of them."

"It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you."-FitzChivalry Farseer"

"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"."

"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."

"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."

"Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm."