Being poor is only romantic in books.
There is no book so bad, but something good may be found in it.
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Have you any notion of how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
“With The Thousand and One Nights”, I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
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.
