7,712 Quotes About Books

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.