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Quotes About Books

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.
~ Charles Simic
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
~ Claudia Christian
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
~ Rainn Wilson
Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
~ Bill Condon
A library is also a place where love begins.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.
~ James Ellroy
The love of reading can be contagious.
~ Brandon Mull
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.
~ Katherine Paterson
I love to read. My education is self-inflicted
~ Groucho Marx
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
~ John Green
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
~ Donald Miller
Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.
~ Joel Dicker
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
~ Edward Gibbon
A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
~ Larry McMurtry
My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?
~ Leighton Meester
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
~ William Shakespeare
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
~ Winona Ryder
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike
~ Ann M. Martin
Convincing someone to stay isolated in the middle of nowhere is mostly determined by whether that someone has an affinity for being alone. I discovered the ability in myself by crawling into books when I was young, disappearing into worlds I'd never seen, reading conversations between people I would never meet, absorbing life lessons through characters overcoming odds I would most likely never face.
~ Jonathon King
There are numerous terrific books on juicing, complete with recipes. One I like is The Complete Book of Juicing by Dr. Michael Murray, with a foreword by Jay Kordich, aka "The Juiceman." Noni
~ Jonny Bowden
I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.
~ Jorge Luís Borges