I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.
لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا.
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
من هرگز در حسرت بال پرندگان نخواهم بود. جذبه های جانم، از کتابی به کتاب دیگر و از صفحه ای به صفحه ی دیگر مرا به جاهای بسیار دورتر می برند.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
