Quotes About Books

Ništa zapravo nije zastrašuju?e osim u knjigama.

nenhum sistema educacional criado pelo homem o impediria de chegar aos livros.

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I'm Charles Baker Harris, he said, and I can read.

The Dewey Decimal System consisted, in part, of Miss Caroline waving cards at us on which were printed 'the', 'cat', 'rat', 'man', and 'you'.

Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.

they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn't it?' 'She wants a father instead of a husband, then.' 'That's what it amounts to,' she said. 'The books are right on the score.

The only things that she cares about are a comfortable chair, a good reading light, and enough books and magazines.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.

Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you

To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.

Why do you read books?" he asked. "Why do you drink beer?" I replied without glancing in his direction

She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.

This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall asleep.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn't. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn't write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That's why I didn't study literature

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.