7,712 Quotes About Books

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

- a type I would never have met, only read about in books, for books were where you found life, without the effort of being in the real world.

Women with clean houses do not have finished books.

People are always asking that about books: What's it about? It sounds like a simple question, but it isn't. You could take all day to answer it if you really wanted to. And if the person asking the question really wanted to hear.

Los libros no quieren ser leídos por cualquier persona, quiere ser leídos por las mejores personas, por eso buscan a sus lectores.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

I think fiction at its best can serve as a moment of induced bafflement that calls into question our usual relation to things and reminds us that our minds, as nice as they are, aren’t necessarily up to the task of living, and shouldn’t get cocky.

All books have magical properties.

I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.