If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
My library is an archive of longings.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
Still round the corner there may wait