About Books Quotes

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Without space, there is no time.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

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

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

We live and breathe words.

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

...books were better than travel.

Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.