Quotes About Books

Gentlemen, first I must say that in books I like to read only what is written, and to connect the details with the whole, and consider readings as definite; and I like to keep one book distant from the other, each for what it has that is different and new; and I especially like books to be read from beginning to end. For awhile now, everything has been going wrong for me; it seems to me that in the world there now exists only stories that remain suspended or get lost along the way.

Waarom zou iemand die handel drijft in boeken niet lijken op degene die zich met wijn bezighoudt? Ook voor wijn was er iets subliems nodig geweest dat de handel vooraf was gegaan en had geschapen: de wijnstok en de zon.

People always want to use this damn place, they need a room to hold this meeting or that, you'd think a library was a big beehive. Myself, I don't see why they can't just check out a couple of books and go home and read. But no, they bunch up and want to cram in here and talk the ears off one another half the night.

I figured if you're a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full.

books: Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown, and later, anything with even a passing mention of sex in it: Judy Blume's Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret, and those Clan of the Cave Bear books, the whole Flowers in the Attic series. But mostly we were obsessed with a book called The Chrysalids. We

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

The Book Booth There's not a big selection, It's not locked for protection, But at the intersection Of Booth and Telephone, Two customers politely Can snuggle in it (tightly) And go once over (lightly) The books they'd like to own. "Readcycle" means you leave one - A book you love. Retrieve one... Who knows? You might receive one You haven't read before. Hats off to the committee For such an itty-bitty Library in the city, Which proves that less is more.

To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body" (Eccl. 12:12b).

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself. To pass from the soft and airy arcades of the mind to the demands of a graceless body always grasping for one thing or another is in any case a surrender:

Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.

Regard the books,' Sindermann said. 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man, but if you do, you'll find that none of them holds an answer to still your doubts.

Regard the books,' Sinderman said, 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' (asked Loken) 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man...

Please put those books away," Miss Daisy had to tell us. "It's time for reading.

Melvil Whoey?" I asked. "Melvil Dewey was a very famous librarian," Mrs. Roopy said, and her eyes got all bright and sparkly and excited.

Is it true that if we don't return our library books on time you lock us in a dungeon under the school?" I asked. Everybody

period. "Do you still think books are boring, A.J.?" she asked me.

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