Quotes About Books

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

In books you'll find your light, and by this light you may cross from one shore of love to another, from your childhood into your adulthood

De ce nu ai spus adev?rul, Mircea? Numai adev?rul nu era de-ajuns? Ai scris pentru bani? Da, pentru asta ai facut-o - acesta este specificul Occidentului, unde c?r?ile se vând pentru voluptate, nu pentru dragoste.

The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.

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Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

Nada es tan desconsolador, para un libro, como morir virgen. A mí, casi me sucedió.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Te dan sabiduría los libros, porque retratan el alma de las personas, te ayudan a pensar, a reflexionar a ver la vida desde distintos puntos de vista, a darte cuenta de tus fallos, a descubir tus propios sentimientos, a buscar tu camino...

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

Ölen bir anne, yanan bir kitapl?kt?r.

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. - Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush.

The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

Alfred's additional reason for assembling his A-list of intellectuals was to assist him in producing books

the vikings would see if they could extract ransoms for the safe return of valuable books.

To learn that a great book has gone out of print is to be reminded of our mortality, because something we have made an intimate part of our emotional selves has been declared, by the publishing world and the culture at large, to be obsolete.

Si je perdais ma bibliothèque, j'aurais toujours le métro et l'autobus. Un billet le matin, un billet le soir et je lirais les visages. [in Citations de Marcel Jouhandeau]

Tout bon livre est un attentat. [in Essai sur moi-même]

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favorite book.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.