About Books Quotes
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.
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are