7,712 Quotes About Books

Just now I'm not so grateful to be living.My ears and eyes are buried in my book,Because I dare not look, I dare not look.

It’s terrible, … for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we have every right to read.

Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills!

There's only one way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's. I unwedged the leatherbound book from beneath my mattress and breathed in the ink-and-adventure smell of it. I walked through it into another world.

the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff

Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.

I felt like a woman reading a mystery novel with every fourth line missing. There's really only one thing a person can do when they're hip-deep in a mystery novel: keep reading.

When I was a girl, I loved reading. An archaic pastime, I know; the index and download are faster, more efficient, offering superior retention and acquisition of knowledge.

Reading remains one of the purest things I do.