7,712 Quotes About Books

There is nothing like discovering a new world through reading.

MIND YOUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA BUSINESS

Luckily, I have music and books to calm the pandemonium in my head.

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

The books are advancing silently, innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them.

Все эти издательства и люди, стоящие за ними, не боялись идти на риск и делились с миром новыми идеями. У каждого был собственный отличительный стиль, начиная с тематики и заканчивая дизайном, типографикой и представлениями о том, какой должна быть книга.

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)

TO LIVE A LIFE VOID OF NEED ISA LIFE FILLED WITH DEPRIVATION