Books Quotes

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Books are a narcotic.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Books are humanity in print.

The world was hers for the reading.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Only the nonreader fears books.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

A good book is an event in my life.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

We live for books.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.