Quotes About Books

Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read.

I get it, even if Jamie can't put it into words. There are some books you can never get rid of, even if you don't like the ending.

Usted debe de ser muy feliz — le dije, sin pensar muy bien en el significado de las palabras que pronunciaba. — Pues no — y me pasó un brazo por el hombro, como si mi comentario la hubiera conmovido—. No soy muy feliz. ¿Por qué lo dices? — No sé, teniendo tantos libros... — moví las manos en el aire para ganar tiempo, mientras buscaba unas palabras que no logré encontrar—. Yo nunca he visto tantos juntos en mi vida.

Así no se puede vivir, pero se vivía, así vivíamos todos, y yo no tenía ganas de morirme mientras me quedaran tantos libros por leer, tantas historias por escuchar, tanto monte y tanto río por explorar con el Portugués.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

Lei non è particolarmente sveglio, eh? Crede dunque che siano i libri 'a messaggio' a poter cambiare un individuo? Invece sono quelli che lo cambiano di meno. No, i libri che segnano e che trasformano sono gli altri, i libri di desiderio, di piacere, i libri di genio e soprattutto i libri di bellezza. [...] Non si è mai più gli stessi dopo aver letto un libro, anche se modesto.

Il détestait se sentir orphelin de livres, comme si aucun bouquin n'avait voulu de lui : il demeurait persuadé que c'était les ouvrages qui adoptaient leurs lecteurs et non le contraire.

Indubbiamente ciascun essere ha, nell'universo dei libri, un'opera che lo trasforma in lettore, posto che il destino favorisca il loro incontro. Quello che Platone disse della metà amorosa - l'altro che circola chissà dove e che conviene trovarlo, salvo restare incompleti fino al giorno del trapasso - è ancora più vero per il libri

Vous savez, il y a toujours une poignée de désoeuvrés, de végétariens, de critiques novices, d'étudiants masochistes ou encore de curieux qui vont jusqu'à lire les livres qu'ils achètent.

Sin duda cada ser tiene, en el universo de lo escrito, una obra que le convertirá en lector, suponiendo que el destino favorezca su encuentro. Lo que Platón dice de la mitad amorosa, ese otro ser que circula por alguna parte y que conviene encontrar a riesgo de permanecer incompleto hasta el día de tu muerte, es todavía más auténtico en el caso de los libros.

I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took me to St. Vinnies and we bought this big box of second-hand books, and she worked with me to turn that weakness around, you know.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.

It is the power of words and books - explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals - that is the greatest weapon in the missionary's arsenal.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes.

I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.