#books

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

"Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"

"So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!"

"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

"An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page."

"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

"Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together."

"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat."

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"

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

"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."

"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"

"There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored."

"Of course. You get everything from books."

"Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?""It will do well, if it ever came to that.""Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Books are the most tolerant of friends."

"Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life."