#books

"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..."

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot."

"I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day."

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

"We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are."

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"The world belongs to those who read."

"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"

"You're never alone when you're reading a book."

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

"Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu"

"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."

"Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia"

"Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books."

"An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books."

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"Writers are the exorcists of their own demons."