#books

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level."

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

"The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place."

"A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden."

"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do."

"For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives."

"Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists."

"Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

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

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

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

"No two persons ever read the same book."

"The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are."

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

"That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you."