There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward. - Peter Ackroyd Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books - Aravind Adiga Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was the closest she could get to him without becoming food: she was in him, or part of her was in part of him. Sex was the other way around: While that was going on, he was in her. I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. - Margaret Atwood Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. - Bernard Baruch I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the finger...

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. - Sherman Alexie He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. - Sherman Alexie Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. - Darren Aronofsky Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. - Shawn Ashmore Oh, please, if its ass is feathered and waterproof, its a duck. Hello, pictures with little word balloons makes it a comic book. They're dorky comic books for nerdy antisocial, nonbathing people. End of discussion. - P C Cast But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. - Alison Bechdel Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be...

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. - Laurie Anderson I'm not putting my faith or life in anyone's hands. All that ever got me was screwed, and my ass is currently sore from it. (Wren) Nice imagery there, tiger. Graphic. Ever think of writing children's books? (Fury) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. - Nina Bawden It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers. - Alain De Botton Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff th...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Ray Bradbury There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky - Welwyn Wilton Katz Pouring out liquor is like burning books. - William Faulkner You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. - Cornelia Funke

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. - Elizabeth Von Arnim Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good. - Mario Batali At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then - Alison Bechdel if you like books with happy endings then put this book down immidiately - Lemony Snicket If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. - Lemony Snicket I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. - Haruki Murakami He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cac...

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. - Sherman Alexie My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed? - Cassandra Clare For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her. - Ernest Hemingway The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the sil...

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel. - Shmuel Y Agnon With love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships - but this is all folly. The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters. - Paulo Coelho All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. - John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. - John Ruskin Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts. - Martin Amis All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feel...

So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up toward you, Your Excellency. It just happens, the way you get erect around girls wearing tight jeans. Except here what happens is that your brain starts to hum. - Aravind Adiga There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. - Alexandra Adornetto I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be. - Jodi Picoult Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of books in which Mac usually sat. "Did anyone speak?" he asked, blinking in the fl...