326 Quotes About Books-reading

Nella lettura c'è qualcosa di irrazionale. Prima ancora d'aver letto, s'indovina se un libro ci piacerà o no. Si fiuta, si annusa il volume, ci si domanda se vale la pena di passare del tempo in sua compagnia. E' l'alchimia invisibile dei segni tracciati su un foglio che si imprimono nel nostro cervello. Un libro è un essere vivente.

Nicht diejenigen haben die Bücher recht lieb, welche sie unberührt in ihren Schränken aufheben, sondern sie Tag und Nacht in den Händen haben, und daher beschmutzet sind, welche Eselsohren darein machen, sie abnutzen und mit Anmerkungen bedecken.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person.

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why I feel like I'm putting on weight, I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't konw what. I might even start reading books.

And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books.""Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.

I eat stories instead of bread or rice. I usually eat books, but I love handwriting best. Love stories are sugary, so I like those even better. So you better write me a suuuuper yummy story.