Quotes About Books

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

A book of prophesy opens the doors. You need a second book to close it. Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc

What's the big deal—you've read it, haven't you?" Then he'd take them down to the used-book store and sell them for peanuts. He never got anything close to what they were worth. He didn't like them cluttering up the house, or even my room. They weren't going to get my books.

La mayoría de mis compras de muebles fueron estanterías. La mayoría de mis otras compras fueron libros.

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.

Books are in the holy shape. They are silent and yet they speak directly into the imagination. You can burn them but they are more powerful than fire. All the knowledge of the ancient ones are put into them. The secrets of the age of vision. - Paris, See: Season 1 Ep.2

God had created the universe as a way of sorting through the great library, finding those books that were most beautiful and meaningful.

Willi and I might take turns reading aloud passages from some of our favorite books (David Kidd's Peking Story and John Blofeld's City of Lingering Splendour were always at hand), and at least once during each session Willi's wife would come down to the Chamber to say hello and recline for a pipe or two.

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on top of a dingy dresser. The closet door was propped open by a pile of books, and from beneath the bed a book stuck out beside the toe of a maroon slipper.

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

Un libro es una máquina para fabricar sueños. Está hecho para sacarte de este mundo.

Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.