About Books Quotes

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound.

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

I think after all I found a feature which is incredible and kind of mein or let's say it something which is part of my childhood in the Jack Ketchum Novels and films.

He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.

Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty...she is smart. -Mackenzie

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

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.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Laws die books never.

Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

A good book has no ending.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.