#books

"No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books."

"If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken and available audibly for all the readers to hear as they watch."

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."

"And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?"

"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world."

"We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]"

"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth."

"Libraries raised me."

"بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن زرت أوطاني يوماً ولمحت نوافذ إنتظاري مغلقةوأبواب فقدي لك مؤصدة ،بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن إحتفلوا بيوم ميلادك وبحثت عن صوتي بينهم ..ولم تجده ؟ وبحثت عن هداياي من بين هداياهم ولم تصلك"

"I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets."

"You can cover a great deal of country in books."

"I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)"

"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."

"All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions."

"Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading."

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser."