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  Books Quotes - I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please   “Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas   “..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.” ― Noam Chomsky, Occupy   “What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be...

  Books Quotes - What is a book? Is it the binding, the ink, the pages, or the sum of the words contained?   “All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.” ― Katherine Paterson   “I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever   “The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.” ― Stéphane Mallarme   “I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go   “I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..” ― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty  ...

  Books Quotes - A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands   “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.” ― Annie Dillard, The Living   “Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems   “To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” ― Claude Adrien Helvetius   “A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.” ― Umberto E...

  Books Quotes - When was the last time you read a book?   “I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon   “Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.” ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale   “When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride   “Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first ti...