About Books Quotes

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

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

Without space, there is no time.

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

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.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

Hope without love is hopeless.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

There are no winners in real games.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.