“You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.”— Erica Bauermeister Related Quotes “To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”— Claude Adrien Helvétius “And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”— Graham Swift “I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.”— Ray Bradbury