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- Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,…
- The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space.…
- Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach…
- If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of…
- At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when…
- Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by…
- I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which…
- A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in…
- I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in…
- I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting…
- For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing…
- This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because…
- I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have…
- At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave…
- I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far…
- Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
- I wanted to live among books.
- Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I…
- The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
- But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
- In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that…
- One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
- My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill…
- Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
- In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
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- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood