Books Quotes

A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth.

~ Patricia A. Mckillip

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words.

~ Terry Pratchett

I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.

~ Janet Frame

The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jars containing perfect nouns. Enough nouns connected one to the other create a verb, and verbs had created everything, had skittered across the face of the void like pebbles across a frozen pond. She had not created a verb herself, but the cherry-wood cabinet in the hall contained book after book, jar after jar, vessel upon vessel, all brown as branches, and she had faith.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because they can contain... fantasies.

~ James Lusarde

Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well.

~ Chris Prentiss

It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I...I don't even know if I want to be saved.

~ Kellie Elmore

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters.

~ Mark Batterson

Learn to handle books, you will learn how to enjoy life.

~ Aman Jassal

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great is the benefit of booklearning, for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path of repentance, for from the words of books attain wisdom and continence. For the words of books are rivers that water the whole earth, they are well-springs of wisdom: the depth of books is unfathomable.

~ The Primary Chronicle

It is better to buy than burrow books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

~ Ander Monson

The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It's pleasurable, really.You see, it keeps on opening.You may fall in.Sure, it's hard to get started;remember learning to useknife and fork? Dig in:you'll never reach bottom.It's not like it's the end of the world--just the world as you thinkyou know it.

~ Rita Dove

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.

~ Bert Mccoy

I live within the world of books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I dream of a house full of books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.

~ Markus W. Lunner

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears.After many pages you end up learning a variant, a different move than the one taken and thought inevitable.I break away from what I am when I learn to treat my own life differently.

~ Erri De Luca

Passion for books is the desire to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

~ Benny Bellamacina

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Share a book and you'll make a friend!

~ Annie Lang

Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.

~ Love The Stacks Bookstore

It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks.

~ Dee Williams

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians and everyone on the frontlines of bringing literature to young people: I know you have days when your work seems humdrum, or unappreciated, or embattled, and I hope on those days you will take a few moments to reflect with pride on the importance of the work you do. For it is indeed of enormous importance--the job of safeguarding and sharing the world's wisdom.All of you are engaged in the vital task of providing the next generation with the tools they will need to save the world. The ability to read and access information isn't just a power--it's a superpower. Which means that you aren't just heroes--you're superheroes. I believe that with all my heart.

~ Linda Sue Park

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

~ Ray Bradbury

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

~ Francis Bacon

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

~ Anthony Powell

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.

~ J.k. Rowling