#books

"One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."

"I guess there are never enough books."

"There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart."

"Your mail could've waited."Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand."

"We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars"

"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."

"I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway."

"There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face."

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

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."

"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]"

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."

"...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books."

"One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries."