7,712 Quotes About Books

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries -- and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed up--not just stopped but saved.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

Some paint with brushes and others use words.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.

Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...]I did not know what to say to this.Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?