About Books Quotes

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

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

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

What better place to kill time than a library?

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

You're either reading a book or you're not.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

I read part of it all the way through.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

I wanted to live among books.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

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

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.