Quotes About Books

books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

So many books to read and worlds to escape into, so much history to learn. No matter what was happening, no matter how distressing it was, all she had to do was go to the library and it would all be well in her world

How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" "Spoken like one who has never known the ecstasy of holding a still-beating heart in her hand.

vorrei che la mia collezione fosse più vasta, per piacere vostro e per soddisfazione mia personale, ma sono un gran pigrone e, benchè non abbia molti libri, ne ho sempre più di quanti riesca a leggere.

The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.

To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls.

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.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels." (p. 57).

Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

entered the library, and could do nothing but stare in wonder...She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

Real Divas Read!

I like how a book feels when I turn the pages, and how the ink smells—almost like something good to eat.

This identity has a fuzzy-socks basket, a fire in the fireplace, dogs snoring on the couch. A library full of books to read and to look at.

The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose authors I want to hunt down personally and slap.

I love the people who exist already, and there are so many books to read, and so much silence to inhabit.

The lonely fill up their lives with books. I don't live in nature. I don't live in culture. I don't live in my relationships. I live in books. What good can all the books of the world be, penned by the loneliest men who ever lived?

It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life.

The books of course had shaped his mind in a hundred ways, especially perhaps the poetry. He thought of the master at his school who had awakened him to the glory of Shakespeare, and his own discovery of Shelley. So many of the books, the best-loved ones, had been about England, and of course the poems were England itself. As a child England had seemed much nearer than New York or the cowboy west.

Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.