#books

"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."

"There are lots of great ideas in my book, but as a cohesive unit, my book is only held together with glue at the spine. Or it would be, if it weren’t an ebook."

"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"

"La lectura, asegura, ampliaría mi experiencia del mundo. Las ideas que se encuentran en los libros serios darían profundidad a mis pensamientos sobre cada decisión que tomo."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you."

"Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand."

"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means..."

"Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth."

"In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed."

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

"​Âdem ile Havva: Âdem ile Havva, yasak elmanın tadına varınca, farklılıklarını gördüler ilk defa. Utanıp incir yapraklarıyla örtmek istediler çıplaklıklarını. Ama birinde bir, ötekinde üç incir yaprağı vardı. Sayı saymayı da öğrenince, bir daha hiç aynı olamadılar."

"Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read."

"Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us."

"Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"And what is the use of a book,"thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."

"If your library is not "unsafe,"it probably isn't doing its job."