Books Quotes

Every book is a world.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Write it down and it will come alive.

~ Efrat Israeli

The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.

~ Allie Burke

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

~ Khaled Talib

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

~ Carmela Dutra

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

~ Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

~ Aurora Whittet

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven—but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

~ Katrina Mayer

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

~ Sarah Cross

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

~ Himmilicious

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

~ Muna Adnan Naqi

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the foot of his bed, against the wall or painted onto it perhaps, not quite discernible in the darkness of foliage beyond the candlelight. He mutters something, something he had wanted to say, but there is silence and the slight brown figure, which could be just a night shadow, does not move. A poplar. A man with plumes. A swimming figure. And he would not be so lucky, he thinks, to speak to the young sapper again. He stays awake in any case this night, to see if the figure moves towards him. Ignoring the tablet that brings painlessness, he will remain awake till the light dies out and the smell of candle smoke drifts into his room and into the girl's room farther down the hall. If the figure turns around there will be paint on his back, where he slammed in grief against the mural of trees. When the candle dies out he will be able to see this. His hand reaches out slowly and touches his book and returns to his dark chest. Nothing else moves in the room. [298]

~ Michael Ondaatje

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

~ Jeanette Winterson

It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea that has cast a spell on me. And every time I think about Promethea, I see her crossing this great expanse by boat and soon, alas, a storm comes up, my memory clouds over, in a flash there are shipwrecks, I cannot even cry out, my mouth is full of saltwater sobs. I am flooded with vague, deceptive recollections, I am drowning in my imagination in tears borrowed from the most familiar tragedies, I wish I had never read certain books whose poison is working in me. Has this Friday, perhaps, thrown a spell on me? But spells only work if you catch them. I have caught the Tragic illness. If only Promethea would make me some tea I know I would find some relief. But that is exactly what is impossible. And so, today, I am sinning. I am sinking beneath reality. I am weighted down with literature. That is my fate. Yet I had the presence of mind to start this parenthesis, the only healthy moment in these damp, feverish hours. All this to try to come back to the surface of our book... Phone me quickly, Promethea, get me out of this parenthesis fast!)

~ Hélène Cixous

I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.

~ Jen Naumann

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

~ Malia Ann Haberman

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

~ Malia Ann Haberman

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

~ Malia Ann Haberman

Good stories take your imagination to anywhere

~ Raphaela Mello

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

~ Peter S. Beagle

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.

~ C.s. Lewis

He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

~ Debasish Mridha

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

~ Aman Jassal

Your friends are a reflection of you.

~ Elizabeth George

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

~ Paul Sweeney

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

~ Carmela Dutra

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

~ Amit Kalantri

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

~ Syrie James

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

~ Nenia Campbell

The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell you all about the brass lamps in the shapes of different fish, or the bright blue curtains that rippled like water as a breeze came in from the window, because although these were wonderful things they were no what made the three children smile. The Quagmire triplets were smiling, too, and although I have not researched the Quagmires nearly as much as I have the Baudelaires, I can say with reasonable accuracy that they were smiling for the same reason.

~ Lemony Snicket

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

~ Lauren Conrad

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.

~ Charlotte M. Mason

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

~ Caitlin Moran

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

~ John Green

All my friends are in my books.

~ B. Cameron Lee

If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.

~ Wency June Z. Libot