Books Inside Books Quotes

“The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read it all in the space of a couple of days, and immediately read it again. Then he brought the book to the public library and told the woman at the desk, „I want other books like this”. She gave him a handful of fantasy novels. He brought them back. „No, this isn't it.” That went on for a time, until finally one day the librarian – no doubt with some misgivings; the boy was only eleven years old – handed him a copy of War and Peace. „This is it!” he told the librarian about a week later. „This is just like Lord of the Rings!” Years afterward he'd say, „I mean, what could be more religious than Lord of the Rings or War and Peace?”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

“Sono pazzo, pensai,. Sono pazzo e sto avendo un'allucinazione terribilmente credibile, nel letto di qualche ospedale psichiatrico. Forse un dottore scriverà di me su qualche rivista scientifica. Dopo "L'uomo che scambio sua moglie per un cappello", ecco "L'uomo che credeva di essere nel 1958". - Jake Epping”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“... vorrei che la mia collezione fosse più vasta, per piacere vostro e per soddisfazione mia personale, ma sono un gran pigrone e, benchè non abbia molti libri, ne ho sempre più di quanti riesca a leggere.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies