Quotes About Books

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is not set up for reading.

For so much of my young life, I'd felt lonely, isolated, cut off from like-minded people. I yearned for human connections and relationships with the sort of people I knew only from books and movies, a lifeline into some other, richer world.

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.

The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.

Sono posseduto da una passione inesauribile che finora non ho potuto né voluto frenare. Non riesco a saziarmi di libri.

Having indeed seen so many things and considered so much, I have finally begun to understand how many are these desires with which the human species burns. Lest you consider me immune to all the sins of men, there is one implacable passion that holds me which so far I have been neither able nor willing to check, for I flatter myself that the desire for noble things is not dishonorable. Do you wish to hear the nature of this disease? I am unable to satisfy my thirst for books.

I've always found that the better the book I'm reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus.

Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

The productions of the mind and hand seem very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known, not in the number of axioms. VIII

Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos, con pocos, pero doctos libros juntos, vivo en conversación con los difuntos, y escucho con mis ojos a los muertos. Si no siempre entendidos, siempre abiertos, o enmiendan, o fecundan mis asuntos; y en músicos callados contrapuntos al sueño de la vida hablan despiertos.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Amalia est en colère : quand sa prof comprendra-t-elle qu'un livre ne s'impose pas, qu'il se rencontre ?

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.