Quotes About Books

More books have been written with Napoleon in the title than there have been days since his death in 1821.

And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump

I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.

I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.

The biggest single problem since 1980 has been that the publishing industry has been led by the nose by the retail sector. The industry analyzes its strategies as though it were Procter and Gamble. It's Hermès. It's selling to a bunch of effete, educated snobs who read. Not very many people read. Most of them drag their knuckles around and quarrel and make money. We're selling books. It's a tiny little business. It doesn't have to be Walmartized.

I've always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.

En mis tiempos, los hechiceros vivían en torres, leían libros de ciencia y removían los crisoles con la badila.

Genre is about retail," Lee said. "Bookstores want to know what shelf to put the book on. But there are really only two types of books. There is the one that makes you miss your stop on the subway. And there is the one that doesn't.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.

We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.

In short, this was a period in which the phrase 'you're never alone with a good book' started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.

On average, everyone has read The Da Vinci Code. You have probably read it. Even if you have not read it, statistically you have.

Is it wrong to prefer books to people? Not at Christmas. A book is like a guest you have invited into your home, except you don't have to play Pictionary with it or supply it with biscuits and stollen.

It's [kindle] a useful addition to our library, not a replacement for it.

All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great.

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words.

All these works of the imaginative inventions unfortunately got into chronicles, which were made into books which everybody respected and believed, principally because they were thick, hard to hold, tedious, and old.

Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.

They put away their books was only poor girls earning a living, for, though some of the customers would swear that whores do it for pleasure, that is only to ease their own consciences, so that they will feel less foolish when they fork out hard cash for pleasure

At this moment the headmaster found Master Wesendonck's tall pile of books slipping from his grasp. He juggled frantically with them for a moment and then, to the infinite joy of the boarders and day boys, they crashed to the ground in all directions. A bevy of form masters rushed forward to the rescue. Master Wesendonck, realising with immense presence of mind that his natural enemies were for once in their proper place, grovelling on the floor, stood still and did nothing.

I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.

Boy 412 reading Thaumaturgy and Sortilage: Why Bother? with avid interest.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

But there comes a time when books let you down. Surely that time had not arrived? But in comparison with a living presence there is no contest.