Quotes About Books

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better

Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.

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Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.