#books

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."

"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

"Of all things, I liked books best."

"You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one."

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."

"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."

"Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

"It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you."-FitzChivalry Farseer"

"Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica."

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

"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."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."