“So many books, so little time.”
— Frank Zappa“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
— Stephen Fry“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
— Ray Bradbury“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
— Caroline Gordon“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”
— Gary Paulsen“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
— G.K. Chesterton“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
— Roberto Bolaño“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, but lasts forever.”
— Philip Pullman“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
— John Cheever“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
— Jerry Spinelli“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
— Alberto Manguel“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
— Stephen King“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
— Louisa May Alcott“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.”
— Neil Gaiman“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
— E. Lockhart“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
— Grace Willows“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
— Aberjhani“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
— Jess C Scott“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
— Zora Neale Hurston“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
— Harold Kushner“I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.- Celine”
— Richard Linklater“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”
— Deng Ming-Dao“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”
— Saul Bellow“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
— Henry Ward Beecherr“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
— Roald Dahl“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
— Groucho Marx“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
— G.K. Chesterton“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
— Jess C Scott“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”
— Shannon L. Alder“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
— Aberjhani“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
— Roger Ebert“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Teaching others, he corrected himself.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“You have made the moon, The Jester said. That is the moon.”
— James Thurber“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.”
— Mark Siegel“If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.”
— Compton Gage“If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.”
— Compton Gage“It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.”
— A.C. Grayling“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
— Thomas Jefferson“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
— Mark Twain“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
— Fran Lebowitz“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”
— Bohdi Sanders