7,712 Quotes About Books

I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.

Percy Buckle looked around his little room and knew he never had to weigh a pound of flour again in his life.I can read all day.Even as a grocer he had been a bookish fellow. All his life it had been the same -- even when he was too tired to manage more than half a page of Ivanhoe in a night, even when he smelt inescapably of sprats and mackerel, he had been a member of a lending library, and a regular attendant at the Workingman's Institute.

There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.

...books also connect us to all others - of our own or previous times - who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

This is a book the corporate monopolies did not want you to read.

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

A writer = a worried person picking up a pen, in the face of death, writing to unlimited strangers to say, “Look!