“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”

“I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.”

“Did you know," he said slowly, "That Victor Dashkov is sitting on your bed?"
"Yeah," I said. "It was kind of a shock to us too.”

“Flaubert read too many books, and in consequence some of his own books stagger under the weight of his erudition. He said he'd read some preposterous number of books to prepare for the writing of Salammbô, and you can feel them dragging the novel down. It would have been much better if he'd made it all up.”

“The devil gave me a look which made me profoundly uneasy. 'Just because I am enjoying your sympathy, don't imagine that I cannot read you like a book,' he said. 'You think you are cleverer than I; it is a very common academic delusion.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”

“Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.”