#books

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change."

"I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?"

"It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth."

"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."

"Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business."

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."

"There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face."

"My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding."

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."

"And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?"

"Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)"

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water."

"A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike."

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

"I love books, they're in my blood."

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

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."