About Books Quotes

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

Remember, a book is always a gift.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

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.

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

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

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.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

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

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.

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

...books were better than travel.

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

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

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

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

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.