#books

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"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."

"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

"One can never have enough socks,"said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."

"It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books."

"Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!"

"I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)"

"They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One,"the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay,"said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat."He frowned."That can be his Indian name,"I suggested."

"In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond."

"We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars"

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."

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

"Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it."

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."

"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"