Books Quotes

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and...

Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are...

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragr...

He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was ...

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and grea...

There is no other enjoyment like reading

With a book he was regardless of time.

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when th...

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story ...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...

I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It i...

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are disp...

...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ...

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think...

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be av...

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might b...

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but...

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just ...

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captur...

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional bloc...

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We...

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex i...

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on t...

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a tem...

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're he...

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity...

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the ...

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of ...

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenber...

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if re...

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t ...

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they could...

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...

The wider we read the freer we become.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere...

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a lan...

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do ...

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monaster...

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the onl...

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step throu...

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silen...

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell i...

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.Bu...

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, med...

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big ...

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.Bu...

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it ...

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our s...

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the ra...

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volum...

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level...

They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give ...

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonde...

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the...

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...S...

She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my ma...

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. M...

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 ...