7,712 Quotes About Books

This special, one-of-a-kind key: the unique mix of books and stories that he would choose to read. Different from everyone else on the planet. His blanks to fill in. His Once Upon a Time.

All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it should consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us, and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.

Sherman Alexie: Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been.

But he spends so much time in front of screens he has a near-compulsive need to let his eyeballs rest on paper.

Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.

Ivy, It's just a book""No such thing as just a book

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Nathaniel´s expression grew odd. "You like this place?""Of course I do. It has books in it.