About Books Quotes
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.