Quotes About Books

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

For someone with so many books and such desire to obtain new copies, you seem awfully ambivalent about them." "I know their power and impact. It is all about perception, is it not, Miss Chase?" She studied him. "I like to think it is about content, Lord Downing. But perception does lay a gloss on the surface. A finger must but swirl beneath.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.

this is a magical land where every one of you can find exactly the book you need at any given time—even if you don't know you need it. Every one of you can find the book that will change your life.

As long as I love books and flowers and travel—and my friends—and good food, as I do now, I want no allowances made for me!

Gyvenimas yra ?vyki? grandin?, viskas susij? kaip geriausiose knygose.

Cada vez que prestamos un título, cada vez que preguntamos algo en relación con él, cada vez que decimos "Si te ha gustado ese, seguro que te gustará este" nos transformamos —por arte de magia— en esa sociedad literaria.

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The most intense part of her life is the time she spends immersed in the books she has insatiably consumed ever since she learned to read.

She has no defined self, but "selves" who pass from one book to another.

La fin de mes livres, sauf La place et Une femme, a été souvent insipide, inutile, rupture de l'écriture plutôt que conclusion, fin.

Elle écoutait avec attention tous les gens qui parlaient de ce qu'elle ignorait, par curiosité, par envie de montrer qu'elle était ouverte aux connaissances. S'élever, pour elle, c'était d'abord apprendre (elle disait, "il faut meubler son esprit") et rien n'était plus beau que le savoir. Les livres étaient les seuls objets qu'elle manipulait avec précaution. Elle se lavait les mains avant de les toucher.

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote these books. And it's really all about sort of false thinking. They try to go in and look at a number of different phenomenon.

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.