Quotes About Books

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

Anda tidak bisa menemui semua orang di seluruh dunia secara pribadi, tetapi Anda bisa menemui mereka lewat halaman-halaman buku. Anda adalah ahli pidato terbesar setelah William Jennings Bryan. Anda menawan hati jutaan pendengar di lapangan terbuka. Mengapa tidak berusaha mencapai jumlah pendengar yang lebih besar lagi?

He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.

She's got Marian Keyes's new one ready to begin.

The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.

My mother told me early that whatever happens to you, however unhappy you may be, you can escape into a book.

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era of darkness new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.