Books Quotes

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each oth...

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") impr...

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years....

One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and ...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in m...

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I w...

This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the ...

He truly was a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things and in something to ...

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the...

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me a...

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spec...

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the min...

This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. ...

... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart...

Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I d...

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been...

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like anot...

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mir...

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that con...

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su es...

As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by...

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless unive...

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ...

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose sme...

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

There are worse prisons than words.

You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; yo...

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doub...

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's ...

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power...

One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power...

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,” he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“One must alwa...

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

We live and breathe words.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone.

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be ...

[Kieran]his head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of the...

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled...

And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the books...

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the pla...

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud...

I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they w...

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

great books are the ones we need

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?” said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with...

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding....

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from huma...

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls...

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

Books think for me.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical p...

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some...

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person...

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim l...

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell hi...

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere ...

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when ...

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Ne...

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colos...

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. A...