Quotes About Books

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Does it look like [drugs have] fucked me up? I'm sitting here on a beautiful beach in Mexico; I've written three books. I've got a fine one-hundred acre fortress in Colorado.On that evidence, I'd have to advise the use of drugs. —HST to Craig Vetter, 1974

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

You two are book-men.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

The Steinbeck house was full of books, and as John's sister Beth recalled, "The choice was ours." Some years later Steinbeck reckoned that the books he immersed himself in as a boy were "realer than experience." He didn't remember them as books, but as "something that happened to me.

I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.