Books Quotes

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you alw...

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a boo...

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, ...

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uned...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table ...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a fu...

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude...

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter c...

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I m...

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, t...

This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is si...

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedie...

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though ...

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...

I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to w...

He whom the gods love dies young.

In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was e

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l

I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don't want to ...

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to acc...

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

Despite the rising popularity of the downloadable e-text, I still care about physical books, gravita...

Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and...

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among s...

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly...

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupat...

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with cleanunderwear—instead of b...

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon ag...

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the wr...

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that...

A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept...

...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust...

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do...

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....

Each book holds an experience and an adven

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed o...

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the c...

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and wr...

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. ...

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a re...

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-ca...

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what ha...

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautif...

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometim...

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy s...

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s g...

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...

There was a grumpy librarian in the library. I could tell that he was the librarian because he seeme...

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It take...

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are librar...

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too in...

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday ...

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other peo...

Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are a...

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaborat...

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because p...

They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six charac...

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is be...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books li...

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *...

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, wh...