Quotes About Books

Your most creative years are generally in your late twenties and on into your forties. You can learn what you need through books, your own practice, and occasional advice from others, but the process is hit-and-miss.

There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero's letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

Atticus's rule was that while he would never lend a book, any of his friends were free whenever they liked to come up and read or even make their own copies. And it was here, beneath a head of Aristotle, that we found Atticus reclining that afternoon, dressed in the loose white tunic of a Greek, and reading, if I remember rightly, a volume of Kyriai doxai, the principal doctrines of Epicurus. He came straight to the point. "I was at dinner last

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

but he never did seem to get around to reading the books he meant to read.

The subject is also fascinating because of the nature of the revisionism—neuroplasticity radiates optimism. Books on the topic are entitled The Brain That Changes Itself, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, and Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, hinting at the "new neurology

There is nothing like a good book to put you to sleep with the illusion that life is rich and meaningful.

their books do not sell as well as mine do.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.

Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake.

Our library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.

These modern novels that leave everything unfinished annoy me... But things are often unfinished in real life, said Pat... All the more reason why they should come right in books, said Uncle Horace testily. Real life! We get enough real life living. I like fairy tales. I like a nice snug tidy ending in a book with all the loose ends tucked in.

After all, it is fairy tales the world wants. Real life is all the real life we want. Give us something better in books.

Notre bibliothèque n'est pas très fournie mais chacun des livres qu'elle contient est un ami.

Anne was welcomed back to school with open arms. Her imagination had been sorely missed in games, her voice in the singing and her dramatic ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour.

Allan thinks it is a proper book for a girl thirteen and three-quarters to read.

All I want is someone who reads books, loves his work, and me, too, of course, and who doesn't take drugs, and isn't on unemployment.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.