Quotes About Literature

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

It's also a story too about how if you love books, well, then I always think you have a layer of protection against the world, which sounds strange, but that is what I truly believe.

Now she knew that there were people -people everywhere- who cared about and loved books as much as she did.

still believe reading is the best form of direct brain-to-brain communication humans have yet figured out

Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)

You've moved an entire country away with a big bunch of books and a van. said Surinder. I already think you are totally stupid.

Noel Streatfeild's White Boots from 1951

For most of her life, the outdoors had simply been something to shelter from whilst she got on with her reading.

I want to be with books, have them all around me.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. VOLTAIRE

Oh and I also got cross at a dinner once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.

Actually," began Nina, feeling timid and trying to force herself to speak a little louder. This was her life now; she was going to have to own it, even though she felt as you often do when you've had to do absolutely everything by yourself: rather like a grumpy child. She took a breath. "Actually, I'm going to run a mobile bookshop. Go around to the towns where they don't have one, like here.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now

once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.

I really wish Kitty were more of a reader like Margot and me.

First published in the US by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,

Ett minne, bevarat i mitt hjärta som ett löv mellan sidorna i en bok.

He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.

books are awsome

How do you know all this?" "I'm a fucking librarian.

I am charmed by her. She seems practically like a transcendentalist.