About Books Quotes

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

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

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.