#books

"I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?"

"Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia"

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

"Remember, the past need not become our future as well."

"Books, the children of the brain."

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."

"It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really."

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."

"Computers don't kill books; people do."

"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them."

"How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

"She reads a lot of books. Good things, books."