51 Quotes About Bookish

Books aren't interested in who is reading them... A book will welcome any reader; any age, any background, any point of view. Books don't care if you can't understand every word in them, or if you want to skip bits or reread bits. Books welcome everyone who wants to explore them, and thankfully no one has ever worked out a way to stop that.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer’s transit case stored there. When we were kids, Emma and I had found it in the attic, dusty and empty, and the leather strap used to carry it had a small cut in it. The tag on the top of the wooden-hinged lid read Circa 1907. It was mostly weatherproof and offered plenty of room for the things I valued—like books.

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.

A scholar deserves better than a soldier, because a soldier's work lasts for an age, a scholar's for ever.

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.

To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.

Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.