One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. - George R. R. Martin
Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which confine instead of spread the public treasure. - Johannes Gutenberg
Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. - Confucius
