#books

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

"Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine."

"One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown."

"One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death."

"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."

"the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor."

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

"He fed his spirit with the bread of books"

"What better place to kill time than a library?"

"People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]"

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)"

"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"

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

"I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?"

"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."

"This book comes with its very own logo (logo sold separately)."

"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices."