#books

"When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly."

"Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence."

"In Western Civilization, our elders are books."

"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."

"I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…"

"But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence."

"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."

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

"Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head."

"و من الممكن أن تمل القراءة طبيعي فعندما يمل الإنسان كل شئ تكون الكتب أول الضحايا"

"You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one."

"A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book."

"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

"Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining."

"Books fall open, you fall in."

"What is reading but silent conversation."

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

"Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good."