“Every book is a box of ideas.”
“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
“This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made up of the book I found. I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.”
“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”