7,712 Quotes About Books

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

It’s only when all one knows of life is abstracted and used as an underlining statement of significant patterning that you have what is both beautiful and permanent.