Quotes About Books

Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity.

I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.

I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books. They contain the condensed experiences of humanity. To live fully, one has to read widely.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....

She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.

Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

An inscribed Casino Royale in a fine dust jacket costs as much as a small house. The earliest books of John le Carré are worth a king's ransom in fine condition.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

A reader is nice, and it's portable. It's a marvelous invention. Buying books for the paper is like buying beer for the bottles. It's what's inside that gets you drunk!

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope[5] and the books of the sophists.

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...