#books

"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."

"Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu"

"Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages..."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink."

"For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it."

"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them."

"I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart."

"If your library is not "unsafe,"it probably isn't doing its job."

"All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems."

"That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing."

"Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book."

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."

"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."

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