#books

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"My hands could be considered deadly weapons. You see, I write with both of them."

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

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

"For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him."

"We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost."

"...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out."

"Books fall open, you fall in."

"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do."

"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"

"The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story."

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."

"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."

"Never trust a man who reads only one book."

"Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name."

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."

"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them."

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."