Books Quotes

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

~ Cornelia Funke

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

~ Diane Setterfield

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

~ Anne Brontë

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

~ Cornelia Funke

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

~ René Descartes

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

~ Karen Marie Moning

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

~ Diane Setterfield

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

~ Brandon Sanderson

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

~ Nick Hornby

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

~ John Waters

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

~ Francis Bacon

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

~ John Waters

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the

~ Patti Smith

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a

~ E.b. White

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

~ Erin Morgenstern

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.

~ Cassandra Clare

Of course I loved books more than people.

~ Diane Setterfield

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

~ Heinrich Heine

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

~ Alain De Botton

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

~ Susan Wiggs

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

~ Daniel Keyes

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

~ George R.r. Martin

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the

~ Gail Carriger

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

~ Lemony Snicket

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

~ Emily Dickinson

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

~ Robin Sloan

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

~ Neil Gaiman

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

~ David Levithan

The world must be all fucked up

~ He Said Then

As always, one of her books was next to her.

~ Markus Zusak

Where should I go? -Alice. That depends on where you want to end up. - The Cheshire Cat.

~ Lewis Carroll

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

~ Markus Zusak