E Books Quotes
If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading.
I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
Stories are life, " protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.
Books are boring, " James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown, " I offered.
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...
Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion
On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.
Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.
More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.
She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.
Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
And she is the readerwho browses the shelfand looks for new worldsbut finds herself.
The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…
But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.
But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.
There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.
I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read
I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.
What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French.That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else, ” my father answered in French.
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'We can't both be Alexander.'Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.
A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
I have lots of favourites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood.
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.