7,712 Quotes About Books

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made up of the book I found. I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?''And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—''Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.

We can't communicate the incommuunicable, we can't explain the inconceivable,life's fullness forever lies in wait about each one of us,and the lonely emptiness of existence is permanent, but a star deep in our heart lead us the way home.

We are human beings and ought to be here for each other, as revercently, as lovingly, by teaching the language of tolerance, of justiceas we would before the entrance to immortality.i know that underneath the mess of our differences everything is common, just think about it

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.