7,712 Quotes About Books

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

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.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

His books were spilled onto the floor, their pages creased beneath them like the broken wings of birds

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.