Quotes About Books

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 and even smaller part of it.

He had learnt it after a fashion, mostly by watching the charlatan operate. He had read many of the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book

Out of everything the depression stole from me... I miss my books the most.

MELCHIOR- Je te dirai tout.-Je le tiens des livres, je le tiens d'illustrations, et aussi d'observations faites sur nature. (L'éveil du printemps)

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory…. In this war, we know, books are weapons.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Of making many books there is no end—So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friendWhen only one is shining in the sky.

I very much like Kristin Cashore's books. I like Catherine Fisher's Incarceron ; it may be a bit more complicated then the books I tend to love, but I liked the characters very much. I loved the Mortal Engines series by Philip Reeve; those are fantastic! Then Jonathan Stroud also; I love, love, love the Bartimaeus series. Those are so witty and so smart. I love the demon Bartimaeus and I love his footnotes; I love everything about him.

Whenever I think of the man I was in those days, cutting across the nat-cropped grass of the campus, burdened down by the weight of the books in which I sought the consolation of other men's grief, and aburdened futher by the large weight of my own bitterness, the whole vision seems a nightmare. There were girls all about me, so near and yet so out of reach, a pastel nightmare of honey-blond, pink-lipped, golden-legged, lemon-sweatered girls

Jack was lying in bed, very pale, which highlighted the freckles across his nose. He was so surrounded by books I could hardly see him. I was very impressed, because at that point this very young child was reading The World Crisis, by Winston Churchill.

People who love books never have spare time!

You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.

Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won't live forever, they make us feel as if we might.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

The study's small ventilation window bumped open, and Vin squeezed through, pulling in a puff of mist behind her. She closed the window, then surveyed the room. "More?" she asked incredulously. "You found more books?" "Of course," Elend said. "How many of those things have people written?" she asked with exasperation.

You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book." "Er…yes?" He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.