501 Quotes by Book

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Don’t read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.