#books

"...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]"

"Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)"

"To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books."

"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"

"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter."

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]."

"Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can"

"Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg."

"You is getting nosier than a parker."

"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."

"She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.“Don’t wake up,” he said."

"What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?"

"I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."

"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey."

"You don't put your life into your books, you find it there."

"I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy."