Quotes About Books

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.

The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved furniture.

As a former student put it: "In a liberry it's hard to avoid reading." When

I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I love that I can become anyone, that I can become anyone, that I can live any fantasy.

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they're about study and solitude, but because they're about connection. Connection with other worlds and different views, even if that's no more than being among other people thinking and breathing.

I wanted to say that lots of things weren't in the libraries of the wise, including plate tectonics, molecular biology and the complete works of J. K. Rowling, but she'd probably say that I was missing the point.

I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all

Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

This book is dedicated to all librarians everywhere—for they are the true keepers of the secret flame and not to be trifled with.

That's the curse of librarianship. If your library is of any quality at all, then its collection is going to outpace your manpower.

Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and that had to include vampires, didn't it? I doubted they were anything like they were in books and on TV, and one thing was for certain – they absolutely weren't going to sparkle in the sunlight.

Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven't been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...

books also connect us to all others - of our own or previous times - who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.

Secretly, he began to smuggle the family library out of the country: about two-thirds of the fifty thousand volumes would be saved.

One night, the Carlton Club was hit by a bomb. The members of the surrounding clubs, in pajamas and slippers, formed long lines to save the library from the flames, passing books from hand to hand and discussing the merits of each as they passed. Such

So books should be lived to be read. And life should be dreamt to be lived.