Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.

Sometimes you have to sigh for those moments you forget you are wearing your cape.

Al cielo non chiedo altro che una casa piena di libri e un giardino pieno di fiori

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I guess that's why I buried myself in books. There was comfort there. Security.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.