7,712 Quotes About Books

Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

Sapeva leggere. Fu la scoperta più importante di tutta la sua vita. Sapeva leggere. Possedeva l’antidoto contro il terribile veleno della vecchiaia.

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.

I read to occupy a mind other than my own

Inherent in being a good experimenter is being OK with the losses. Therefore, remember that every time you purchase a book that turns out to be a dud, you are just one step closer to a book that will change your life.

Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all suchpreconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Wait for the dust of reading to settle; for the conflict and the questioning to die down; walk, talk, pull the dead petals from a rose,or fall asleep. Then suddenly without our willing it, for it is thus that Nature undertakes these transitions, the book will return, but differently. It will float to the top of the mind as a whole.

You float through my daysYou wander through my dreamsI am falling awake.