Books Quotes

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...

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, ...

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing ...

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Mement...

Finding one’s place in the world is never easy.Have courage and be true to who you are.Remember, tho...

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgott...

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They ...

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be br...

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go...

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inha...

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you tha...

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you ...

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t kn...

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too...

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. Th...

...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w...

New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’r...

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that...

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v...

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By chang...

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It ...

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed wit...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in...

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everythi...

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhap...

Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finis...

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it...

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. Th...

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of...

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)...

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, ...

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as...

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all tha...

What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

Books’ll be back,” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s ...

As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, m...

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one flee...

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a boo...

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or po...

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, W...

Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of t...

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soun...

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He m...

The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later litera...