Quotes About Books

Sid Hite makes the greatest books

Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves, Dressed in dim brown, and black, and white, and green And every kind of colour. Which will you read? Come on; O do read something; they're so wise. I tell you all the wisdom of the world Is waiting for you on those shelves; and yet You sit and gnaw your nails, and let your pipe out, And listen to the silence.

Sitting here I glance over my right shoulder at the little row of books, red and green and blue, which stand waiting for my hand, offering their accumulated riches. I think of the years that may be in store for me, and of all the pages I may turn.

Later in my life I would come to understand that history books are the least reliable witnesses

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

The only way to gain wisdom, is through loving books.

To be content with success, you have to be hungry for books.

Books speak plain when counselors blanch.

Who God doth late and early pray,More of his grace than gifts to send,And entertains the harmless dayWith a well-chosen book or friend.

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

We bring our life stories, our prejudices, our grudges, our expectations, and our limitations with us to books….Openness to a book is vital, and openness is simply a willingness to be changed by what we read. This is not as easy as it sounds. Many people read to solidify their own views.

But mixing is the way of the world. The world passes through us - food, books, pictures, other people.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.

I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.