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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite bo...more

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The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four ...more

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As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known...more

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In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those fr...more

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A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

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On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favour...more

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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favo...more

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite boo...more

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This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.

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The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immateria...more

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In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the...more

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No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in te...more

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… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I saw it, my readers. More exac...more

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A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, w...more