About Books Quotes

In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.

Books think for me.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Laws die Books never.

Beware of the man of one book.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

I could decorate a whole city with books!

Self Help: When you really stop and think about it, is there any other kind?

Life would be perfect if monster would stop farting.

The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C’EST ICI L’EMPIRE DE LA MORT.“That means, ” he explained to Gini, “‘Stop! It is here the Empire of Death.

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.