About Books Quotes
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
