Quotes About Books

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

At lunch, I sit with Charlie, surrounded by people but alone. They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page, and I tell myself to smile so that no one will see, and I smile and I nod and I do a pretty good job of it.

They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page.

other children's stories were certainly unabashedly racist, too. Among the worst were the popular if unfortunately named series of Dumpy Books for Children, whose titles include the notorious Story of Little Black Sambo

The Cat in the Hat became a massive bestseller, allowing Geisel to quit his day job and start building the Seuss empire. This included not just books but words: a master neologian, he invented the terms oobleck, grinch, and nerd.

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.

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.