Quotes About Books

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

For readers, one of life's most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.

Kindle, isn't it?" the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books." "Oh, probably not all of them," Wesley said. "Huh? Why not?" "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant." "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning!" she said, and went off chortling.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions.

Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. No more heebie-jeebies. No more whim-whams

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Me cae bien la gente que lee libros, y no sólo porque yo solía escribirlos. Los lectores de libros están tan dispuestos como cualquiera a iniciar una conversación con el tema del tiempo, pero son capaces de pasar de ahí.

Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.

Strip away the metaphors, Jeannie had said, and you are left with the inexplicable. The supernatural. Only that's not possible. The supernatural may exist in books and movies, but not in the real world.

Words are the key, the books are the door.

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics.

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?