About Books Quotes

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

My library is an archive of longings.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

I cannot live without books.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

What is reading but silent conversation?

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.