Being poor is only romantic in books.
There is no book so bad, but something good may be found in it.
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?
With The Thousand and One Nights, I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.[Con Las mil y una noches, aprendí para no olvidarlo nunca que sólo deberían leerse los libros que nos fuerzan a releerlos.]
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 books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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.
Films are ephemeral, while books – the good ones – are eternal, or close to it.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
