About Books Quotes

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

We become the books we read.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

No two persons ever read the same book.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

The world exists to end up in a book.