Quotes About Books

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book. Then I feel a certain desperation to start a new one. To have company.