About Books Quotes

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.

Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can't take me.

I love lying here with you, under the books.

It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.

Books make the soul float.

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.

Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

Better watch her. She burns other people's books.

I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible, ' he said.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret. - Claire Harding - Boone Holler

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation

I have read 391 books... please- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me

I collected speech from so called "Smart", "Genius" nation... the judge is going to be made from you... ...Don't worry "Notes of A Dead Man Sequel" are going to be one damn long journey.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

I’m so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own.

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.

You can tell if someone really loves Books by the way they look at them, how they open and close them, how they turn the pages.

Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much...

But sir, I'm seventeen, " I reply bluntly. "I'm genetically programmed to want to make statements.