Quotes About Books

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

a place where children did not write and read was a woeful place, indeed.

Empecé a seguir - una gota entre la corriente - el rumbo de la masa humana que, cargada de maletas, se volcaba en la salida. Mi equipaje era un maletón muy pesado - porque estaba casi lleno de libros - y lo llevaba yo misma con toda la fuerza de mi juventud y de mi ansiosa expectación.

Although private debt certainly plays a key role in many crises, government debt is far more often the unifying problem across the wide range of financial crises we examine. As we stated earlier, the fact that basic data on domestic debt are so opaque and difficult to obtain is proof that governments will go to great lengths to hide their books when things are going wrong,

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Dallas Morning News Top 10 of 2016

A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.

She raised her glass of Chablis. "To all readers everywhere, may their tribe increase.

I'd never seen so many books. Never. The sight made my eyes water. I mean, tear right up.

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.

You can't photograph the hugest mysteries of the universe that really have nothing to do with what shows up before your eyes, under a microscope, through a telescope, in the pages of books.

good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

6:08 and the next dude in line is buying the new King and The Shining just to be bold — he calls The Shining a prequel and I want to cut his face

I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.

You know what, kid? You need to get over yourself. You work in a bookstore. You don't make the books. You don't write the books and if you were any good at reading the books, you probably wouldn't work in a bookstore. So wipe that judgmental look off your face and tell me to have a nice day.

And you're not the standard insecure nymph hunting for Faulkner you'll never finish, never start; Faulkner that will harden and calcify, if books could calcify, on your nightstand; Faulkner meant only to convince one-night stands that you mean it when you swear you never do this kind of thing.

I own every book Stephen King has ever written." "That's great. That's something to be proud of." But did you read them, fuckface?

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

I hope that most people at this point in time realize that Prince is one of the great poets of our time. I didn't say songwriter— I said poet. Prince is the closest thing we have to e. e. cummings and people are so stupid because they don't come in here and buy books of Prince poems. It

Books don't get any more commercial and anti-chap than Stephen Fucking King (unless you want to talk about Dan Brown, but you can't compare the two because Dan Brown's not literary).