#books

"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."

"Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza."

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

"All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions."

"It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids."

"This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read."

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."

"You is getting nosier than a parker."

"When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day."

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

"And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun."

"In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader."

"Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places."

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"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."

"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."

"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."