Books Quotes

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after...

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the l...

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are alw...

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as ...

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather ma...

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in...

A book is never finished it's abandoned.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she tol...

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a ...

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printe...

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

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now ...

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all tak...

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because ...

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets,...

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s...

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a myster...

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality...

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of ...

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and see...

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should ...

Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understoo...

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoke...

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has...

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes...

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australi...

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can...

A house without books is like a room without windows.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi...

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an ...

It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wonde...

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I...

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and...

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondere...

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instructio...

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very ...

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy ...

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lendin...

Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, ...

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem t...

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the...

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbea...

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the ...

The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying ve...

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours...

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat ...

My mother explained the magic with this washing machine the very, very first day. She said, 'Now Han...

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a hum...

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot...

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk t...

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...

I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than love...

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is t...

I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she...

Everything seems pointless since you left

I suddenly thought about my old girlfriend, the one I had first slept with in my third year of high ...

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any autho...

Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel s...

No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right her...

Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest o...

It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you...

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness wher...

I'd swallow some whiskey and listen to the waves while I thought about Naoko. It was too strange to ...

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me ...

I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusio...

One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I...

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, n...

I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, ...

I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists be...

I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, th...

Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged ano...

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any autho...

I miss you something awful sometimes