Quotes About Books

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your self. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Czech: ?ekni mi, co ?teš, a já ti ?eknu, kdo jsi.English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are.First president of Czechoslovakia.

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

I am obsessed with good buying books

It is better to be a reader than richer.

I love to buying books to create my sacred library.

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn't landed yet

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but of eagerness, anticipation.

In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books are on his shelves. . . . I have always found books to be helpful, yet they must be good books.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

I lived between my music and books, on the whole a rather unwholesome life for a boy to lead. I dwelt in a world of imagination, of dreams and air castles--the kind of atmosphere that sometimes nourishes a genius, more often men unfitted for the practical struggles of life.

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles.

Although the Bible is a library of books, it is also "the book." It is a story, a grand story, of God's love for His people, and the price He was willing to pay to restore us into perfect fellowship with Him.

He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have you read all of these?' A true book lover knows that, no, he hasn't read them all. It's about the process, it's about when the right reference comes up, you have the right book to go to; it's about never being without something to occupy your eyes and mind.