About Books Quotes

Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I am a part of all I have read.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.