About Books Quotes
To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...
A library — a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!
As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.
Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)
And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps.
Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.
I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.
Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spite of going though the pain and pleasure of the characters, you remain a witness, unscathed.
You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.
Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.
Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.
But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.
Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.
I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.
When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them.
Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.
The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.
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I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
I don’t know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found myself the most willing servant of what I considered a rich habit.
When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.
The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.
To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls.
Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.
My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems.
Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.
Leave me alone, Do me a favor, abandon me, I want to think about, You me and the idea of forever.
I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.
A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.
I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency.
I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.
We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.
