7,712 Quotes About Books

Books were my broomstick. They allowed me to fly to other realms where anything was possible.

Self-help books help you to become a better version of your present self.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?

But you say it “in-TREE-ging”, LJ, not “in-trig-you-ing”.’ I said it back to her, ‘In-TREE-ging.’ (Okay, this is a problem with books. But the only one.)

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

these books are my good friends

The very best authors are no longer with us; so only read books written by dead people.

Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.

What if people don't like it? What if they don't even take the chance to read it, but they hate us for what's inside of it?