Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
No two persons ever read the same book.
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
You know that feeling,β she said, βwhen you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Of course I loved books more than people.
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word βdeliciousβ and the reader believes itβs the Devilβs word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops βThis book is shit and donβt read it
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
Of all things, I liked books best.
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
