About Books Quotes

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Love is almost never simple.

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

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

Experience is the best teacher.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

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

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

Books do furnish a room.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.