Quotes About Books

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?