Kaye11’s most recent Quotables

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body

Reading one book is like eating one crisp.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it is also full of fourth-rate readers.

Always read stuff that’ll make you look good if you die in the middle of it

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.

Never lend books, noone ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me.

A book is a success when people who haven’t read it pretend they have

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

Reading is thinking with somebody else’s head instead of one’s own.

If you go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

… I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering it things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear