Words worth keeping

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.