7,712 Quotes About Books

Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

Some books send you around the world, while others send you around the bend.

For a certain kind of person there is literally nothing nicer than eating breakfast by yourself on a moving train with a good book.

Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.

Books are silent voices cradling a universal voice

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

When you read a good book, you feel something like this in the depths of your soul: You will definitely re-read this book many times! And when you meet the person you love, you will feel the same thing again!