#books

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."

"anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"Read great books and be great."

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me."

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."

"The world was hers for the reading."

"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."

"Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted."

"Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers."

"Old words are reborn with new faces."

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

"I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books."

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries."

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

"I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season."

"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."

"I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised."

"You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside."