Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.