Quotes About Books

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy , was privacy --for their patrons and themselves.

Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

I spend a lot of time reading.

It's not that I studied everything in books, I just learned things from my real life experiences. An experience; an asset for learning.

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

I used to keep my college room mate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.