395 Quotes About Book-lovers

He certainly did warm up to me since the first day he started working for me. And although he was not in favor of the dead, Nikhil stood by. I didn’t need a scale to tell me.

There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .

I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A sense of well-being flowed through me as I circled the ground floor. It was better than meditation or a new pair of shoes- or even chocolate. My life was a disaster, but there were still books. Lots and lots of books. A refuge. A solace. Each one offering the possibility of a new beginning.

Book hangovers are more fun than alcohol hangovers. They take you into a completely different world. They don't numb the mind but open it to imagination and different perspectives to the reality. I knew many worlds better than reality and that they existed in books.

The books we first read are the ones that indelibly affect us. The characters feel closer to people who are real, who merely happen to live in another time and place.

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

The common denominator in life is that in a thousand years, none of us is going to be here. Even if I were the fastest guy in the world, in a thousand years the result would be the same. I'd be dead and buried, and no one would remember or care.

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

Writing is a holy occupation.