Quotes About Books

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

I Read, I Smoke, I Admire.

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libro viejo y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras. Los libros la transportaban a mundos mágicos, lejanos, infinitos, repletos de aventuras y emociones.

Su dedo índice recorrió los lomos de los libros, desgastados por el uso y por el tiempo. Eligió uno de sus favoritos y se lo llevó hasta la mecedora. Una vez allí se puso los anteojos y bien acomodada frente al fuego, con una taza de chocolate caliente y el libro abierto sobre su regazo, lo abrió por una página al azar y se dispuso a dejarse llevar por la magia de las palabras.

Libri faciunt labia, maese Zacarius, libri faciunt labia. Lo cual, en lengua vulgar, significa que 'la lectura perfecciona la elocuencia'.

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libros viejos y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras.

Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances.

Lately she'd been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes. Pat Conroy—

Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people's company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

She had always thought of it as being rich, having so many books she has yet to read.

He brought down Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Jay Cantor's Krazy Kat, then grabbed an omnibus volume of Dick. "And this is the book that inspired the film we saw tonight." Tess stifled a laugh, but not the surge of affection behind it. Where some might have seen an almost woeful ignorance

Of course, she had paid for her books –most of them. Like almost every other bibliophile on the planet, Tess had books, borrowed from friends, that she had never returned, even as some of her favorite titles lingered in friends' homes, never to be seen again.

She asked only that life be tangible, full of things to touch and hold, smell and devour. Soft fabrics, new books, full-bodied wines, well-made dresses, defined calves.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...