#books

"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."

"Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."

"One can never have enough socks,"said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

"I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others."

"Books don't need batteries."

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."

"Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours."

"The world must be all fucked up,"he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

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

"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."

"I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book."

"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."

"Nobody steals books but your friends."

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."