Books Quotes

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

~ L.r. Knost

I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.

~ Richard Francis Burton

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

~ Mark Jason Dominus

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

~ Ally Carter

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

~ Mark Pryor

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

~ Justin Cronin

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn’t see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way.How I got over

~ Darryl Pinckney

And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?

~ Walter Benjamin

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

~ Lavie Tidhar

Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people’s victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.

~ Phil Knight

I love a book that makes me cry.

~ L.m. Montgomery

How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?

~ Scott Stambach

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

~ Mark Forsyth

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

~ Marie Lu

In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.

~ Emery Lord

While we are living, our lives are like that of an open book, still being written. Eventually, our book closes for us, and to others, it will be as if we never existed at all. Those of us who write down our life story, will leave a little piece of us behind when we're gone.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

~ Nina Jean Slack

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

~ Emoke B'racz

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

~ Pearl S. Buck

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.

~ Robin Sloan

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading....From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable. Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved?

~ Joseph Zobel

I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true! --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

~ Rebecca Hitchcock

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

~ Rikki Ducornet

Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something.'To someone else.' 'To someone.

~ Aimee Bender

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

~ Nicole Mckay

A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose name it was, survives in these pages.

~ Marcel Proust

This is overdue. Quite a bit, I'm afraid. I apologize. We moved to Topeka when I was very small, and Mother accidentally packed it up with the linens. I have traveled a long way to return it, and I know the fine must be large, but I have no money. As it is a book of fairy tales, I thought payment of a first-born child would be acceptable. I always loved the library. I'm sure she'll be happy there.

~ Ellen Klages

ah, life—the thingthat happensto uswhile we’re offsomewhere elseblowing ondandelions& wishingourselves intothe pages ofour favoritefairy tales.

~ Amanda Lovelace

The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.

~ Ian Strang

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

~ Ian Strang

Keep search in sci-fi and many other places books, stories and many other stuff... Keep searching, don't stop and you will find it!

~ Deyth Banger

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

~ Tessa Maurer

The life of a star is surrounded by the qualities of a Galaxy,I am that Galaxy.

~ Slicktor Victor Robinson

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

~ Tarang Sinha

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

~ Karin Slaughter

We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

~ J.k. Rowling

I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable.

~ Love The Stacks Bookstore

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

~ Lemony Snicket

Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.

~ Savannah Gostlin