7,712 Quotes About Books

A book can be read to you, not for you.

What you know is not always important.

Recommending a book to someone is the second best thing to buying it for them, which is the second best thing to reading it for them.

As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel.

All thinking people are in constant need of more books.

....Les Misérablesis a book I read in Mexico many years ago and left behind in Mexico when I left Mexico for good, and I'm not planning to buy it or reread it, because there's no point reading, much less rereading books that have been made into movies...

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck

I can see how it starts, how someone can slip through your fingers even when you care so much it hurts.

In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was disturbing. Reading was an affirmation of being alone, of being separate, trapped. Books were like oubliettes. Her preference was for company, the tactile world, atoms.