Quotes About Books

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

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

I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

Never stop dreaming or reading.