Quotes About Books

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.