Quotes About Books

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I'm not normally superstitious, but I've even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.

Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you.

I took to the...Library as to a lover...

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.

I'd read Skid Row U.S.A., by Sara Harris

Some years back a small library I'd purchased had included a Cadwallader Club limited edition of the two Alice books, bound in red leather with gold stamping. John Tenniel's illustrations are the ones everybody knows, but the Cadwallader edition featured two dozen dazzling color plates by Michael Trossman. I never did get around to shelving the books

books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

Nice passion is reading

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow, ' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'