"I'm always reading books-as many as there..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”

“The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”

“They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.”

“If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid”

“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?”

“I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.”

“Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.”