I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It’s dangerous to open a book

I am a big book collector. I love books.

That’s why I’ve just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There’s not a book here, Lawford, that hasn’t at least a glimmer of the real thing...

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul....

Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur – aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!

Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he...

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst…They are for nothing but to inspire.

He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

That’s what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that’s how I see it.

The other night we talked about literature’s elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated “dose” of life. I said, almost indignantly, “That’s the danger of it, it prepares you to live,...

When book and reader’s furrowed brow meet, it isn’t always the book that’s stupid.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New”…

A book won’t move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in...

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was,...

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises...

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into...

‘Why have we books in heaven?’ ‘Why not?’ asked my brother.’ ‘What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!’

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

A Tangle of Green Men”]

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceansburned. The sugary smoke settled in my hair as I slept, the scent like a cloud left on my pillow as I...

Max had once read in one of his father’s books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no...

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will...

Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

I never thought I’d fall madly in love with literature.

You don’t buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch....

Books: open them. Your mind is calling for new horizons of knowledge and wonders.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

How many books are there?” said Masklin.”Hundreds! Thousands!””Do you know what they’re all about?”Gurder looked at him blankly. “Do you know what you’re saying?” he said.”No. But I want to find out.””They’re about everything! You’d...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Make sure he’s worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

I like paper.

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn’t making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I’d have...

If I may paraphrase Hobbes’s well-known aphorism, I would say that ‘books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

For your birthday I’ll give you 100 copies of your least favorite author’s book, and they’ll all be autographed. Now, should I sign the cover, or the inside flap?

more to be a human being with

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. ‘Tis my mind that is starving.

If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn’t even know...

The internet is a knowledge omelet. Sometimes I just want the purity of scrambled eggs that only a book can provide.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I wrote a book on sex. It’s got a hole in it so you can literally fornicate with it. I’ve only sold one copy, but I’ve heard that the buyer shared the book with all...