7,712 Quotes About Books

It also meant she thought of books as medication and sanctuary and the source of all good things. Nothing yet had proven her wrong.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.