Quotes About Books

Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny rhymes by Emily Dickinson.

Los libros están encantados. Los libros me ayudan a viajar. Los libros me ayudan a respirar.

I freed myself in order to be alone. For me freedom means solitude, a solitude full of walks in the country, solitary strolls through unfamiliar cities, books scattered around my bed at night, lying open at random pages.

Where do dreams come from? ...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children." "Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?" "Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

Yes, I'm a reader. Kill me. I could tell you I was raised in the library and the books were my only friends, but I didn't do that, did I? Because I have mercy. I'm neither a genius nor a kid destined to become a wizard. I'm just me. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

And I know that's trite. Yes, I'm a reader. Kill me. I could tell you I was raised in the library and the books were my only friends, but I didn't do that, did I? Because I have mercy. I'm neither a genius nor a kid destined to become a wizard. I'm just me. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.

books always trumped everything else.

So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.

Lou había acabado ejerciendo su profesión porque le encantaba leer. Cayó en la cuenta, mientras curioseaba por las grandes estanterías, de lo poco que leía ahora. Trabajaba sobre todo con papeles indescifrables y mapas sobrescritos. En lo que a libros concernía, solo se ocupaba de su exterior. Aquí tendría tiempo para leer

Sin embargo, no le parecía que los escritores ni quienes compraban esos libros conocieran a los animales. Ella tampoco los conocía en absoluto. Eran criaturas. No eran humanos. Suponía que sus funciones se definían por el tamaño, la forma y la complejidad de su cerebro. Suponía también que poseían tenues, vacilantes e inarticuladas vidas psíquicas

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

EDITOR'S NOTES Poetry Diary of Tolstoy; Dutton, p. 84: "Where the boundary between prose and poetry lies, I shall never be able to understand. The question is raised in manuals of style, yet the answer to it lies beyond me. Poetry is verse: prose is not verse. Or else poetry is everything with the exception of business documents and school books.

But I know, at least, that you would keep a library on the subject, and I hoped that I might be allowed to read from it." He regarded me with a bemused expression. "You want me for my library.

She sighed again, wondering how she'd be described as a character in one of her much-loved romance books.