7,712 Quotes About Books

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.

A great writer is a blitzed illusionist of portable magic. You're welcome.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me — me and every other reader — by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I am presumed in every book, even in those I’ll never read.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.