Books Quotes
Quotes about Books
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- “I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished re...” — Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate Of Reading In An Electronic Age
- “What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered fo...” — Isaac Asimov
- “There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that,...” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five
- “Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a de...” — Betty Smith
- “For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, f...” — Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life
- “But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookis...” — Julie Powell, Julie And Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, And Her Sanity To Master The Art Of Living
- “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattere...” — John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
- “These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice.....” — Gilbert Highet, The Immortal Profession
- “I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words...” — Donald Miller, To Own A Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father
- “We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of...” — Alberto Manguel
- “How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejud...” — Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
- “We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us w...” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across th...” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- “What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In pile...” — Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
- “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh an...” — Francis Bacon, The Essays
- “Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking ...” — Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader
- “I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splash...” — Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
- “There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange...” — Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
- “Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the ...” — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
- “And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not t...” — Jerry Spinelli
- “Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an...” — Jerry Spinelli
- “As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suit...” — Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as...” — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can f...” — Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
- “After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:A man walking fas...” — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
- “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the firs...” — Winston S. Churchill
- “Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, o...” — Neil Gaiman
- “One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal...” — Regina Doman
- “Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because yo...” — Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop
- “Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a bo...” — Rebecca Mead, My Life In Middlemarch
- “Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have...” — Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting
- “One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. ...” — Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate
- “The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you ...” — Cornelia Funke, The Inkheart Trilogy: Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath
- “We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable li...” — D.h. Lawrence, Apocalypse
- “You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?""Well, approximately half."Sticky said. "To be more accurate...” — Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society And The Prisoner's Dilemma
- “A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your b...” — Azar Nafisi
- “I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the busines...” — John Green
- “Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was prov...” — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- “A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding th...” — Horace Mann, Life And Works Of Horace Mann Volume 3
- “We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and ou...” — Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
- “There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has sh...” — Marina Tsvetaeva
- “How does it feel, anyway?"How does what feel?"When you take one of those books?"At that moment, she chose to keep still....” — Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
- “You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, yo...” — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on old...” — Roald Dahl, Matilda
- “All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But i...” — Katherine Paterson
- “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – whic...” — Alan Bennett, The History Boys
- “Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through ti...” — Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening The Inner Reader In Every Child
- “A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader...” — Jorge Luis Borges
- “Beneath my eyes opens -- a book; I see to the bottom; the heart -- I see to the depths. I know what loves are trembling ...” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves
- “I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream fill...” — J.r. Moehringer