Books Quotes

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...

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three o...

The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't kno...

It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Some...

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo...

Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Boo...

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know...

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints.......

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. ...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someon...

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will ris...

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that ...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging o...

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss....

Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a s...

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem...

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the cond...

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its gho...

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm betwee...

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

No two persons ever read the same book.

When this book is mould,And a book of manyWaiting to be soldFor a casual penny,In a little open case...

Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me,...

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was st...

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing g...

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...