About Books Quotes

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

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

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

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.

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

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

Books, the children of the brain.

I even love the smell of books.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

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

Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

There's more than one way to be a girl

Read two old books for every new one.

I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

Rereading, we find a new book.

great books are the ones we need

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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