7,712 Quotes About Books

This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read it & lived it & dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down it's pages, it's spirit grows & strengthens. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader's hands, a new spirit...

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

فأنا بدون القراءة، قراءة أي شيء، شأني شأن مدمن لا يجد سيجارة. لا أعرف كيف أنسى الوقت وأجعله غير مسموع في انتظام قلبي ونفسي.

All my lifeI lived in fear;I was always blaming myselfFor everything:Even little things;Now I realizeNothing was my fault

All art is either great - or someone else's fantasy.

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.

Writing in the form of activism, art, or entertainment is a necessary and basic foundation for a productive, well informed society.