Mostrare la propria libreria è come far entrare un estraneo nell’intimità. È come raccontare dei propri flirt. Una cosa da evitare.

You can’t just walk away when you see a good book but to buy and own it.

I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents’ tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were...

How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.

In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between them. If I step up to a shelf and look at the books...

What would I have done without books?

A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what...

Books are more to treasure than cars.

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd...

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

My books, my paradise!

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell...

Discovery a good book is like finding a great treasure.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Reading is everything. Read to enrich your world.

A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.

I would rather be without money than to be without the book I love to read.