Books Quotes

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

~ Roald Dahl

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

~ Ezra Pound

We live and breathe words.

~ Cassandra Clare

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

~ George Gissing

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

~ China Miéville

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.

~ Betty Smith

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

~ Anna Quindlen

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working m

~ Carl Sagan

Literature is news that stays news.

~ Ezra Pound

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

~ George Carlin

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

~ Cornelia Funke

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

~ Jasper Fforde

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

~ John Keats

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

~ Jane Austen

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

~ Roald Dahl

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

~ Charles Baudelaire

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

~ Ray Bradbury

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

~ Virginia Woolf

I guess there are never enough books.

~ John Steinbeck

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

~ Neil Gaiman

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

~ Roald Dahl

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

~ Christopher Moore

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

~ Oscar Wilde

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

~ Patricia A. Mckillip

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

~ Elizabeth Scott

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

~ Ray Bradbury

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

~ Gail Carson Levine

The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal. Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

~ Ray Bradbury

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

~ Voltaire

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

~ Anna Quindlen

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

~ Anne Herbert

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

~ Cassandra Clare

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

~ Voltaire

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.

~ Robertson Davies

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.

~ Sasha Alsberg

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

~ Elizabeth Kostova

You cannot open a book without learning something.

~ Confucius

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

~ Joan Bauer