"

We live for books.

"

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely becau...more

"

The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dea...more

"

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

"

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual worl...more

"

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one ...more

"

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not on...more

"

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en me retra...more

"

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discov...more

"

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is f...more

"

...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years every...more

"

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of b...more

"

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

"

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of b...more