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Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.

There was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)

The big selling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

I've written books on advertising... cheque books.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.