Quotes About Books

So you're a librarian. His eyes shifted back and forth. I prefer loremaster.

Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.

Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.

Damn. How much time did you spend in the library? "I am a library.

Bro, all you've got is a book. How do you plan to fight our parents? With literacy?

If you want to be successful, your first job is to learn what you need to learn in order to achieve the success you desire. Learn from the experts. Read their books. Listen to their audio programs. Attend their seminars. Write to them or approach them directly and ask them for advice. Sometimes, one idea is all you need to change the direction of your life.

Nancy Cartwright here in this School has written the funniest paper on scientific method ever, by taking the average advice from all the books about scientific method, and they are extreme banalities

Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read. Sure, Sammy said, I never said I had anything against reading books... The publishers will be relieved to know that, I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already rounding the bend of his next sentence.

But since printing came in no one wants illustrated works, they are happy with these cheap books with their ugly, square letters all squashed together.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Child, unless you are opening a dictionary, you start at the book's opening page and you read the story through. If it's terribly dreadful, then just put it down and move on. What I will not tolerate is reading ahead. It's not fair to the reader or to the author. If they meant to have their books read backwards, they would surely have written them that way!

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others. -Carrie.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)

If you grow up in a household where there are books, where you are read to, where parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins read for their own pleasure, naturally you learn to read. If no one close to you takes joy in reading, where is the evidence that it's worth the effort?

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can put independent and even rebellious ideas in the heads of their subjects.

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Si uno crece en una casa donde hay libros, donde alguien le lee, donde padres, hermanos, tías, tíos y primos leen por placer, es natural que aprenda a leer. Si no hay nadie cerca que disfrute leyendo, ¿dónde está la prueba de que vale la pena?

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic

La escritura es quizás la mayor invención humana. Une a gente que nunca se conoció. Ciudadanos de épocas distantes. Los libros rompen las cadenas del tiempo. Un libro es la prueba de que los humanos son capaces de hacer magia

His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.