7,712 Quotes About Books

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.

Books are the vice of saints

Women are by nature blithely content to allow others to deceive them. You know full well these tales have only the slightest connection to reality, and yet you let your heart be moved by trivial words and get so caught up in the plots that you copy them out without giving a thought to the tangled mess your hair has become in this humid weather.

Books are gifts. They nourish your mind, spirit, and heart.

Read as much as you can –knowledge is the most essential luggageto carry through your lifeand it doesn't weigh anything at all.

No book's too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.

Wine and conversation were all very well, but books were books were books.

Novels were primarily about relationships. … Their popularity lay in that they belied the loneliness of the people who read them, people essentially hypnotized by the machinations of their own consciousness.