Quotes About Books

Where are you going on vacation?" "Nowhere. I'm going to read. I love reading.

Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Books are curious things. When they want to live, the find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well

When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

Under English law the penalty for eating meat on Friday was hanging. The law remained on the books until the sixteenth century, when Henry VIII broke with the Vatican.

had the good fortune to come from a generation that had no YA books available. Once you moved beyond children's books there was nowhere to go but adult books.

I had the good fortune to come from a generation that had no YA books available. Once you moved beyond children's books there was nowhere to go but adult books.

Aldus Manutius denounced the Lyonnais printers and listed the many errors in their books, but the Lyonnais, rather than apologizing or denying the theft, simply used his denunciations to make corrections.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

she reads book as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ?

Our reading was subversive, and we knew it... I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard... What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling... What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.

She reads ?books as ?one would breathe air ?to fill up and live

Everywhere, things snagged me. The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world.

One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.

I see you have them books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across someone who still reads, brother.

Bugünlerde kitap okuyan birini görmek gerçekten göz yaÅŸart?c?.

Koltuk alt?nda kitaplar ta??d???n? görüyorum kardeÅŸim. Bugünlerde hâlâ kitap okuyan birine rastlamak gerçekten nadide bir zevk kardeÅŸim.

I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.

In books, you love somebody and want them, win them or lose them. In real life, so often, you love them and don't want them, or want them and don't love them.

I indicated that I wrote for the papers, not mentioning books because, if not specifically in your line, authorship is an embarrassing subject for all concerned. Besides, it never sounds like a serious occupation.