Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
In a way, it’s nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you’re walking away from a bus that’s just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it’s raining on top of everything else, most people might think that’s just really bad luck; when you’re a…
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
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