Books Quotes

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, a...

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, a...

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not ...

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able t...

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is ...

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the ...

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer ...

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own ho...

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around u...

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast asid...

Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive...

These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful...

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'...

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, meas...

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are ...

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them...

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuarie...

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thriller...

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar...

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing...

Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgot...

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours ...

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jell...

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them...

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his hea...

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them...

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceil...

I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never re...

Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a th...

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a ...

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best fr...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will...

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it...

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I...

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – ‘Anarchy In The UK’ and ‘God S...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spiri...

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's im...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and ex...

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood wi...

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Nearly all our associations are determined by chance or necessity; and restricted within a narrow ci...

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and...

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’...

I guess there are never enough books.

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody ne...

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getti...

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s...

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discove...

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own it's the freedom to buy an...

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or th...

You're either reading a book or you're not.

And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed...

Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I a...

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door...

Books, the children of the brain.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establi...

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all becaus...

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorke...

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extens...

Paradise will be a kind of library

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitat...

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing abou...

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain o...

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best ...

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.