Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!

For a bookoholic, that scent of age old paper is more intoxicating than any designer perfume.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.