Quotes About Books

long gaps between sequels to books.

Staying awake in the winter requires considerable pantry, a lot of luck, warm clothes, and several dozen good books.

Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now. Strive for the long now.

It is written.

A Uncorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.

No eran simpleas acumulaciones de palabras dispuestas escrupulosamente sobre un página para ofrecer la impresión de realidad... Cada uno de aquellos volúmenes era realidad. La similitud de esos libros con los ejemplares que había leido en mi hogar no era mayor que la similitud de una fotografía con su sujeto: ¡aquellos libros estaban vivos !

Jasper Fforde

Gaps. I loathe gaps. Gaps in doors, gaps in windows, gaps in bathroom tiles, long gaps between sequels to books. But you know which gaps I hate the most?

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

What about the Now?" "It'll recover, given time. Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moment that anchors us in the here-and-now. Strive for the Long Now. It's the only thing that will save us.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly." "By badly you mean unhappily, right?" "As far as I'm concerned, the two are synonymous.

He smiled. Thought you said you weren't a romantic. I'm not. She turned another page. Doesn't mean I don't like to read about romance.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly.

He blinked, then roared with laughter. Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books. ~Eternity in Death

When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.

Cause I'm telling you, I read all the time. Seventy-five novels last year, I counted! Well, Goodreads counted.

Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.

All I really want to do is go to the book store , drink coffee and read

Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there was no doubt that it was pleasant to get away from it. And books could take her away.

The novels, travel books and poems I read had a particular smell. The smell of cellars. An almost spicy smell, a mixture of dust and grease. Verdigris. Books today don't have a smell. They don't even smell of print.

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

Six books… my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you understood them, they couldn't change halfway through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves. If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for.