#books

"...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels."

"This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends."

"A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."

"The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass."

"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."

"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."

"The wise man reads both books and life itself."

"Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre."

"Literature is news that stays news."

"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."

"I plan to learn enough to read you like a book."

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."

"I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."

"The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books."

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